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Review of Wired and Layered

Wired and Layered

Sinan Cem Eroğlu

Ahenk Müzik

Rating: ★★★

Sinan Cem Eroğlu is considered somewhat of a veteran – despite only being in his 30s – with several albums...

Reviewed by Michael Galea in issue: May/2020

Review of Ngiwu Shwabada

Ngiwu Shwabada

Sibusile Xaba

Komos Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

The 2017 debut by the young, dreadlocked South African jazz guitarist and singer Sibusile Xaba, Unlearning/Open Letter to Adoniah, received...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2020

Review of Brasses for the Masses

Brasses for the Masses

Džambo Aguševi Orchestra

Top of the World

Asphalt Tango Records

Rating: ★★★★

The future of Balkan brass seems secure in the fast fingers of Macedonian trumpeter Džambo Aguševi and his orchestra who...

Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: May/2020

Review of Kalan Teban

Kalan Teban

Aly Keïta, Jan Galega Brönnimann, Lucas Niggli

Intakt Records

Rating: ★★★

When this trio's first release, Kalo-Yele (reviewed in #117), came out in 2016 it promised much but delivered rather less....

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2020

Review of Luangwa to Livingstone: Music from Zambia – Chikunda, Nsenga, Soli, Cewa, Tonga, Ila, Leya

Luangwa to Livingstone: Music from Zambia – Chikunda, Nsenga, Soli, Cewa, Tonga, Ila, Leya

VARIOUS ARTISTS

SWP Records

Rating: ★★★

This is a lavish four-CD set of fi eld recordings made by Michael Baird between 1996 and 2016. Baird has...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2020

Review of Homage to Wayan Lotring

Homage to Wayan Lotring

Wayan Lotring

Ocora Radio France

Rating: ★★★

This double CD features the only surviving clear recordings of one of the most important Balinese musicians of modern times,...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: May/2020

Review of Cadence Revolution 1973-1981: Disque Debs International Vol 2

Cadence Revolution 1973-1981: Disque Debs International Vol 2

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Strut

Rating: ★★★★

Volume two of Strut's exploration of Disque Debs International recordings - the longest-running and most prolific label of the French...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2020

Review of The Vienna Tapes

The Vienna Tapes

Dunkelbunt

Dunkelbunt Records

Rating: ★★★

In 2001 Ulf Lindemann (aka Dunkelbunt) moved from Hamburg to Vienna. That was his first journey eastward - his first...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2020

Review of Rujo

Rujo

Antti Paalanen

Top of the World

Rockadillo

Rating: ★★★★

I first heard Antti Paalanen when he released Breathbox (2010). In the audience was Kimmo Pohjonen who'd had such strong...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: May/2020

Review of Uzelli Elektro Saz (1976-1984)

Uzelli Elektro Saz (1976-1984)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Top of the World

Uzelli Stereo

Rating: ★★★★

Following on the heels of its Psychedelic Anadolu selection from 2017, legendary Turkish label Uzelli has come out with a...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2020

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