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Review of While I Sit and Watch This Tree

While I Sit and Watch This Tree

Lizabett Russo

Last Night From Glasgow

Rating: ★★★★

Lizabett Russo is a cool, gently hypnotic singer whose songs drift effortlessly between folk and jazz, with echoes of her...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2021

Review of Songs Beyond Words

Songs Beyond Words

A Moving Sound

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Performing together for more than 20 years, the husband and wife team of vocalist Mia Hsieh, a Taiwan native, and...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: March/2021

Review of Çhâñt Électrónïqúe Vol 1

Çhâñt Électrónïqúe Vol 1

Chant Electronique

Rika Muzika

Rating: ★★★

‘We are very, very curious,' this aptly named international seven-piece collective suggests – and what a curious album this is....

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2021

Review of Jamboree: The Album

Jamboree: The Album

Oily Cart

Oily Cart

Rating: ★★★

Now here's a really cheering and worthwhile project, which is exactly what you would expect from Oily Cart. It's a...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2021

Review of For(e)ward

For(e)ward

Made Kuti

Top of the World

Partisan

Rating: ★★★★

The dynasty continues with the debut from Omorinmade Kuti, grandson of Fela and son of Femi – but with a...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2021

Review of Henry Martin

Henry Martin

Edgelarks

Top of the World

Dragonfly Roots

Rating: ★★★★

Some voices just hit you right in the guts. One of those is that of Hannah Martin – the Devon...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2021

Review of Anatolian Sun

Anatolian Sun

Moğollar

Night Dreamer

Rating: ★★★★

Moğollar (the Mongols) were the original Anatolian rockers and coiners of the term ‘Anatolian pop.’ Back in the late 60s...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: March/2021

Review of Coti Coti

Coti Coti

Nahui Cuarteto de Saxofones

Cugate Classics

Rating: ★

How much sax can you take? Anyone working in the vicinity of a tireless one-hit busker or being driven by...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2021

Review of We Are

We Are

Lucidvox

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Rich, dark, romantic, apocalyptic, brooding… The swirling aural textures of this Russian quartet's debut album give rise to a surfeit...

Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: March/2021

Review of RAAZ

RAAZ

Hooshyar Khayam & Bamdad Afshar

30M

Rating: ★★★★★

Like an intoxicated dream, the sounds of provincial Iran and the wider world warp and meld into a feverish blurring...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2021

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