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Review of After the City

After the City

Bird in the Belly

GFM Records

Rating: ★★★

The Brighton band’s third album is a smokily atmospheric folk noir not a million miles from the fearsome futurology of...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2022

Review of Todo el Mundo

Todo el Mundo

Kiko Villamizar

WEPA Studios

Rating: ★★★

Texas-based Colombian musician and lately also stand-up comedian Kiko Villamizar has released his new album Todo el Mundo following the...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: April/2022

Review of Marchita

Marchita

Silvana Estrada

Top of the World

Glassnote Records

Rating: ★★★★

Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada plays a host of instruments, but says she most often opts for the Venezuelan cuatro guitar,...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2022

Review of Yonder Green Grove

Yonder Green Grove

The Norfolk Broads

The Norfolk Broads

Rating: ★★★

The four women who make up The Norfolk Broads first met in the alto section of the Trad Academy Sea...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2022

Review of Moch

Moch

DLÙ

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Taking their name from the Gaelic dlùth, meaning closeness, this exciting new quintet from Glasgow deliver a well considered debut...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2022

Review of The Gleam

The Gleam

Park Jiha

Top of the World

tak:til

Rating: ★★★★

The work of the Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha has divided opinion at Songlines. Simon Broughton disliked her 2018 solo debut...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2022

Review of Tonkori in the Moonlight

Tonkori in the Moonlight

OKI

Mais Um

Rating: ★★★★

This writer interviewed OKI, the famed Ainu musician and producer from the Japanese island of Hokkaido, for this magazine some...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2022

Review of Danças de Porto de Mós

Danças de Porto de Mós

Aire

Sons Vadios

Rating: ★★★

Danças de Porto de Mós tells only half the story. The first album by Aire collects 16 new renditions of...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2022

Review of Images on Guitar

Images on Guitar

Baden Powell

MPS Music

Rating: ★★★★

The late Brazilian acoustic guitarist Baden Powell – yes, his father named him after the founder of the scouting movement...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2022

Review of Sounds from the Saray

Sounds from the Saray

Ensemble Marâghî

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

Apparently taken prisoner in his youth by marauding Tatars and sold at the slave market in Constantinople, Wojciech Bobowski (c1610-1675)...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2022

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