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Review of Con Sentimiento

Con Sentimiento

Noslen Noel

Cugate Clásicos Latinos

Rating: ★★★

Born in just 2002 in Güines (just south of Havana), Noslen Noel has already made a name for himself as...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: October/2021

Review of Yaho Bele/Say Yeah

Yaho Bele/Say Yeah

Badume’s Band & Selamnesh Zéméné

Top of the World

Innacor Records

Rating: ★★★★

Badume’s Band are one of the mainstays of European Ethio-jazz, with over a decade of experience as the go-to backing...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2021

Review of Pissourin

Pissourin

Monsieur Doumani

Top of the World

Glitterbeat

Rating: ★★★★★

In their latest outing, the amazing Cypriot trio Monsieur Doumani go (more) electronic, and again produce an endlessly inventive take...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2021

Review of Cross Cultural X-periment: The Vanguard

Cross Cultural X-periment: The Vanguard

Alexander Fedoriouk

Folk Sounds Records

Rating: ★★

Alexander Fedoriouk is a Ukrainian cimbalom player, currently living in Cleveland, Ohio. The cimbalom is the hammered dulcimer of Eastern...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2021

Review of Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man

Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man

JP Harris’ Dreadful Wind & Rain

Top of the World

Free Dirt Records

Rating: ★★★★

With Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man Alabama-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter-guitarist and occasional banjo luthier Joshua Press (JP) Harris celebrates a...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2021

Review of Expansions

Expansions

Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band

Big Crown Records

Rating: ★★★★

Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band are a German steel pan band that have earned a reputation for giving a Trinidad...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: October/2021

Review of Zonnewachter

Zonnewachter

Wouter en de Draak

WHJK

Rating: ★★★

The second album from Wouter en de Draak (Wouter and the Dragon) is a timely reminder of the beauty of...

Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: October/2021

Review of Syzygy

Syzygy

Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas

Culburnie Records

Rating: ★★★

Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser and his longtime musical partner, Californian cellist Natalie Haas, released their first set as a duo...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2021

Review of Goitse a Thaisce

Goitse a Thaisce

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Skinty Records

Rating: ★★★★

A trip down memory lane, Goitse a Thaisce(Come Here, My Darling) is also a clarion call to the uninitiated to...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2021

Review of Caricias

Caricias

Katja Šulc

Casete Mexico

Rating: ★★★

Slovenian singer-songwriter Katja Šulc’s career began in 2008 with a homage to Mila Kačič, a poet celebrated in her homeland,...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2021

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