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Review of Chants

Chants

Al-jiçç

Al-jiçç

Rating: ★★★★

A Portuguese band playing Middle Eastern music while paying homage to American jazz: with a premise like this, it’s either...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Day by Day

Day by Day

Norman Blake

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★

At 83 years old, Blake is poised to take his place in the Americana pantheon. In the 1960s he made...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Las Fuerzas Almadas

Las Fuerzas Almadas

Dat Garcia

ZZK Records

Rating: ★★★

Dat Garcia is the first solo female artist on Buenos Aires’ ZZK Records, which has spearheaded a neo-electro-folk scene in...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Zvony

Zvony

Adrian Myhr & Michaela Antalová

Hevhetia

Rating: ★★

This is a duo recording of Slovak and Norwegian flutes with double bass. The flutes, played by Michaela Antalová, are...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Reggae Dancer

Reggae Dancer

Eastern Arrernte Band

CAAMA Music

Rating: ★★★

There’s a long and proud tradition of Australian Aboriginal rock-reggae groups, from both remote desert regions and urban cities, that...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Tolika Mtoliki

Tolika Mtoliki

The Brother Moves On

Matsuli Music Limited

Rating: ★★★★★

A dozen years after forming as a performance art and music ensemble in Johannesburg, The Brother Moves On releases one...

Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Live at the Floodgate

Live at the Floodgate

Dan Walsh

Dan Walsh

Rating: ★★★★

Pulling off a live album can be tricky; the sound can be inferior to a studio record and it is...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Spell Songs II: Let the Light In

Spell Songs II: Let the Light In

Spell Songs Ensemble

Top of the World

Quercus Records/Thirty Tigers

Rating: ★★★★★

You might just catch the diminutive cheep of the wren at the end of ‘St Kilda Wren’ – blink and...

Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Yn Rio

Yn Rio

Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18

Légère Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Welsh-Brazilian samba might seem an unlikely musical match; even less so with the addition of the BBC National Orchestra of...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Via de la Plata

Via de la Plata

Daniel García Trio

ACT Music

Rating: ★★★★

Playing an album by a Spanish pianist on ACT Music, you might immediately expect to hear some variety of flamenco...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: January/February/2022

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