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Review of Un Canto por México, Vol 1

Un Canto por México, Vol 1

Natalia Lafourcade

Top of the World

Sony Music Entertainment México

Rating: ★★★★

Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade is one of those superstars who makes the rest of us feel idle and talentless. She...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2020

Review of Hayvan Gibi

Hayvan Gibi

Baba Zula

Night Dreamer

Rating: ★★★

The intimacy of hearing – and seeing – Baba Zula Live has Lately surpassed the experience of Listening to some...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: November/2020

Review of Delhi to Damascus

Delhi to Damascus

Sandeep Das

Top of the World

In A Circle

Rating: ★★★★

This album is predicated on the idea that by changing just a few elements of a musical style or tradition...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2020

Review of Nomadic Spirit

Nomadic Spirit

La Caravane Passe

At(h)ome

Rating: ★★★

For two decades, and across five albums, La Caravane Passe (The Caravan Passes) has delivered a music steeped in Balkan...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2020

Review of Nattflykt

Nattflykt

Hansan

Makaki Music

Rating: ★★★★

Floating with vulnerability and enchantment, this Swedish and German duo follow both jazz and folk influences to provide us with...

Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: November/2020

Review of TMSA Young Trad Tour 2019

TMSA Young Trad Tour 2019

VARIOUS ARTISTS

TMSA

Rating: ★★★

Each year, the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year’s six finalists form a band with the previous...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: November/2020

Review of Maguidala

Maguidala

Pedro Lima

Bongo Joe

Rating: ★★★★

After the success of their compilation Léve Léve: Sao Tomé & Príncipe Sounds 70s-80s earlier in the year, Bongo Joe...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2020

Review of Mirror: Turkish Disco Folk

Mirror: Turkish Disco Folk

Arşivplak

Arşivplak

Rating: ★★★★

Arşivplak, meaning ‘Records from the Archives’ has come out with an 11-track instrumental compilation of popular Anatolian psych tracks, mainly...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: November/2020

Review of Olorum

Olorum

Mateus Aleluia

SESC

Rating: ★★★

Given the current situation in Brazil, you cannot help but trip on the words Mateus Aleluia sings in the opening...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2020

Review of Door to the Cosmos

Door to the Cosmos

VARIOUS ARTISTS

On the Corner

Rating: ★★★★

When Sun Ra dared to knock on the door of the cosmos in 1979 whoever let him in didn’t close...

Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: November/2020

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