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Review of When I Wait For You

When I Wait For You

Dirk Powell

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★

For the success of her widely acclaimed 2019 Smithsonian Folkways release, Songs of Our Native Daughters (reviewed in #147), Rhiannon...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2020

Review of Access Denied

Access Denied

Asian Dub Foundation

X-Ray Production

Rating: ★★★

Brexit, Trump and the rise of right-wing populism has positively cried out for the militant intervention of Asian Dub Foundation,...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020

Review of Inganekwane

Inganekwane

Zoë Modiga

Yelloëwax

Rating: ★★★★

In both senses of the term, Johannesburg’s Zoë Modiga is a new world star. Her ancient-to-future energy swirls from a...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2020

Review of Néné

Néné

Ilam

GSI Musique

Rating: ★★★★

Ilam is the Montréal-based Senegalese singer and guitarist whose debut album, Hope, had him compared to everyone from Tracy Chapman...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2020

Review of Titik Api

Titik Api

Harry Roesli

La Munai Racords

Rating: ★★★★

Harry Roesli was a political and social activist and prominent member of the tradisi baru (new tradition) Indonesian artists who...

Reviewed by Andy Channing in issue: October/2020

Review of Red Gold Green and Blue RMX

Red Gold Green and Blue RMX

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Tiojan Jamaica

Rating: ★★

Last year Trojan Jamaica released Red, Gold, Green and Blue, a selection of covers of sacred blues and soul works...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2020

Review of Sounds and Colours: 10 Years

Sounds and Colours: 10 Years

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Sounds and Colours

Rating: ★★★★

I’ve met Mexicans into Spanish oi, Bolivians addicted to Jamaican ska, and Argentinians obsessed with Celtic folk. They produce fanzines,...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2020

Review of Bar de Paco

Bar de Paco

Yoandri Castro Max (Max Max)

Tumi Music

Rating: ★★★★

The rich and versatile voice of Cuban singer and composer Max Max (aka Yoandri Castro Max) will be familiar to...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2020

Review of Stormweere

Stormweere

Spilar

Tiad Records

Rating: ★★★

Formed around the voices of sister and brother Eva and Maarten Decombel with the mandolin and synths of Trio Dhoore’s...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2020

Review of Rough Guide to Spiritual Blues

Rough Guide to Spiritual Blues

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★

As the music of gambling dens, bordellos, barrelhouses and anywhere else vice was to be found, the blues swiftly earned...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020

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