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Review of Distrito Federal

Distrito Federal

Mexican Institute of Sound

Top of the World

Soy Sauce

Rating: ★★★★

Camilo Lara is a busy man – music supervisor for Disney's Coco, founding member of Mexrrissey and Compass, perennial collaborator...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2021

Review of Cuttin' Grass Vol 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions

Cuttin' Grass Vol 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions

Sturgill Simpson

High Top Mountain Records

Rating: ★★★

Multi-time Grammy and Americana music award winner, country music singer-songwriter and actor Sturgill Simpson has fed 20 of his original...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2021

Review of Silent Voices

Silent Voices

Ayla Schafer

Nixi Music

Rating: ★★★

Singer-songwriter Ayla Schafer plays spellbinding folk music infused with Latin mystique. Her captivating new album carries a profound message of...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: March/2021

Review of Diamond in the Rough

Diamond in the Rough

19th Street Band

19th Street Band

Rating: ★★★

Following 2017's The Things That Matter, 19th Street Band deliver Diamond in the Rough, a nine-track showcase for the core...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2021

Review of In D

In D

Brooklyn Raga Massive

Brooklyn Raga Massive

Rating: ★★★

After their extraordinary recording of Terry Riley's In C in 2017, the eclectic New York-based collective known as BRM follow...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2021

Review of La Giostra

La Giostra

Kërkim

Liburia Records

Rating: ★★★

Kërkim (Albanian for ‘Research’) is an Apulian five-piece outfit augmented with a few guests. The result might be wrongly filed...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2021

Review of Stop the Hate

Stop the Hate

Femi Kuti

Partisan

Rating: ★★★★

Femi Kuti's last album, 2018's One People One World, was disappointing; it lacked the bite of earlier recordings and sounded...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2021

Review of The Tunis Diaries

The Tunis Diaries

Emel

Partisan Records

Rating: ★★

This is a sprawling double album from the highly cosmopolitan and experimental Tunisian-born, New York-based singer-songwriter Emel. Hot on the...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2021

Review of Lonely Hymns and Pillars of Emptiness

Lonely Hymns and Pillars of Emptiness

Iztok Koren

Takuroku

Rating: ★★★★

Conceived in isolation during the spring of 2020, this recording is the solo debut by multi-instrumentalist Iztok Koren (of Širom...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2021

Review of In the Furrows of Common Place

In the Furrows of Common Place

Jim Ghedi

Basin Rock

Rating: ★★★

Drawing on the poetry of John Clare, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris' The Lost Words and South Yorkshire writer Barry...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2021

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