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Review of The American Clavé Recordings

The American Clavé Recordings

Astor Piazzolla

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Astor Piazzolla took tango out of the ballroom and out of Argentina. Producer and label founder Kip Hanrahan’s mid-1980s recordings...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Review of Mi Herencia

Mi Herencia

Rebolu

Top of the World

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

New York City has been tapping into Colombian music fever for several years now, what with festivals such as Encuentro...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Review of Up the Hill and Through the Fog

Up the Hill and Through the Fog

The Slocan Ramblers

The Slocan Ramblers

Rating: ★★★

The COVID-19 pandemic exacted a particularly tough toll on The Slocan Ramblers. Bandmates Adrian Gross (mandolin) and Darryl Poulsen (guitar,...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Review of La Recia

La Recia

Cimarrón

Cimarrón Music

Rating: ★★★

Harpist Carlos ‘Cuco’ Rojas and singer Ana Veydó formed Cimarrón in 2000 with the aim of getting the music of...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Review of Causeway Recordings

Causeway Recordings

Sam Shackleton

Top of the World

Sam Shackleton

Rating: ★★★★

Endowed with an endearingly streetwise Scottish brogue; sharply honed clawhammer banjo, guitar and harmonica chops; and a flair for equally...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Review of Sing It for a Lifetime

Sing It for a Lifetime

Heidi Talbot

Absolute

Rating: ★★★★

Heidi Talbot’s latest album is borne from separation and adversity – recorded in a home in the process of being...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Review of Color de Trópico Vol 3

Color de Trópico Vol 3

VARIOUS ARTISTS

El Palmas Music

Rating: ★★★

Another varied collection from 1960s and 70s Venezuela courtesy of the duo El Drágon Criollo and his partner El Palmas,...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Review of Breaking the Thermometer

Breaking the Thermometer

Leyla McCalla

Top of the World

ANTI-

Rating: ★★★★

The American-Haitian singer and multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla, who made her name with Carolina Chocolate Drops, won a Songlines Music Award...

Reviewed in issue June/2022

Review of Lulu

Lulu

Good Morning Bedlam

Erika Records

Rating: ★★★

In 2021, Good Morning Bedlam ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund their third full-length album. Fans from around world pledged...

Reviewed in issue June/2022

Review of Signo de Fuego

Signo de Fuego

Eliane Correa & La Evolución

Top of the World

Somos Más Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Eliane Correa is a fast-rising star. Probably the only woman to lead a large-format mixed gender Cuban timba-style band (there...

Reviewed in issue June/2022

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