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Review of Pontos de Passagem

Pontos de Passagem

Fado Malvado

Fado Malvado

Rating: ★★

Fado Malvado are a Portuguese quartet that focus on the musical bond between an accordion, a pair of guitars and...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2023

Review of Le Monde Moderne

Le Monde Moderne

Studio Shap Shap

Top of the World

Studio Shap Shap

Rating: ★★★★

Welcome to volume two of a mesmeric voyage into the very bowels of the capital of Niger, Niamey, and beyond....

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: May/2023

Review of Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru

Mississippi Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Tsege-Mariam Gebru is an emahoy (sister) of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, living a hermetic life in Jerusalem at 99 years...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2023

Review of Agôra

Agôra

Caixa Cubo

Jazz and Milk

Rating: ★★★

This prolific world-jazz trio from São Paulo boosted their profile in 2020 with a BBC 6 Music Album of the...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2023

Review of Arar

Arar

Arar

Microscopi

Rating: ★★★

Emerging from the dynamic Catalan contemporary musical scene, Arar, which translates as ‘Plowing,’ sees the Barcelona-born Marina Tomàs Amado (voice...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: May/2023

Review of Lost Voices

Lost Voices

Tim Stafford & Thomm Jutz

Mountain Fever Records

Rating: ★★★

It's tempting to say that the stories recounted in song form on Lost Voices eclipse the songs themselves. But that...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2023

Review of Volume 1

Volume 1

Will Pound & Jenn Butterworth

Lulu Bug Records

Rating: ★★★★

Having played together on various projects over the last few years, it was maybe inevitable that harmonica whizz Will Pound...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2023

Review of Sølvstrøk

Sølvstrøk

Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola

Top of the World

heilo

Rating: ★★★★★

Sølvstrøk – the title alone drips with poetry and mystery. It translates as ‘Silverstroke,’ but hang on to that Norwegian...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2023

Review of O’Neill's Tunes

O’Neill's Tunes

Dan Walsh

Rooksmere Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Starting life as a book, it was inevitable that Dan Walsh would end up recording his dream project, O’Neill's Tunes....

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: May/2023

Review of Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall

Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall

Alasdair Roberts

Drag City Records

Rating: ★★★★

Roberts has released a number of albums devoted to traditional songs over the course of the past two decades, 2010's...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2023

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