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Review of When the Roses Come Again

When the Roses Come Again

Daniel Bachman

Three Lobed Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

With When the Roses Come Again, finger-style guitarist extraordinaire Daniel Bachman has officially ventured beyond the local solar system and...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2024

Review of Salsa Classics

Salsa Classics

Classico Latino & Fruko feat Omar Puente

Jazztone Studios

Rating: ★★★★

Classico Latino is a London-based collective led by pianist Ivan Guevara and cellist Graham Walker, who co-founded the outfit back...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2024

Review of Instant Moksha – Mantras

Instant Moksha – Mantras

Sarves Thiru

Sarves Thiru

Rating: ★★

Sarves Thiru is a Malaysian-born singer now based in London. She’s studied Carnatic singing and says: “I hope that people...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2024

Review of Badieh II

Badieh II

Badieh

Worlds Within Worlds

Rating: ★★★★

Formed around the nucleus of Michel Gasco (rubab, oud) and Mohammad Miraghazadeh (tar, setar), Badieh is an exploration of the...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2024

Review of Measure, Pour & Mixtape: Music for Cooking

Measure, Pour & Mixtape: Music for Cooking

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Spinster Records

Rating: ★★

This is literally a cassette mixtape, limited to 300 copies, although also available digitally. The mechanics of cooking, the sociability...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: March/2024

Review of A DOS

A DOS

Lau Noah

Lau Noah

Rating: ★★★

The joyously uncategorisable Catalan singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Lau Noah criss-crossed Europe and the US for more than a year...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2024

Review of Borderlines & Bloodlines

Borderlines & Bloodlines

Germa Adan

Top of the World

Binding Thread Records

Rating: ★★★★★

One of the standout folk albums of 2023 in the UK, which almost flew under the radar, Birmingham-based Germa Adan’s...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: March/2024

Review of Hirondelle

Hirondelle

Hirondelle

Hirondelle

Rating: ★★★

Hirondelle is an unlikely cohort of Northumbrian, Scottish and Provençal musicians with a just as improbable fascination for the Occitan...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2024

Review of Tears of the Sun

Tears of the Sun

Teni

Platoon

Rating: ★★★

The sophomore album from rising Nigerian star Teni is an Afrobeats-tastic affair in which the artist sings and raps in...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2024

Review of Gifts of Light

Gifts of Light

Spell Songs

Top of the World

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Spell Songs is a triumphant collaboration, in which seven great musicians are inspired by the books of Robert Macfarlane and...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2024

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