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Review of Future Rust Vol 1

Future Rust Vol 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Future Rust Records

Rating: ★★★

New label Future Rust offers this compilation as an immersion into the subculture of the handpan, commonly called hang. The...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2020

Review of Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton

Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton

Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

This wonderful recording of Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton performing in New York in 1962 begins with a short, sweet...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2020

Review of Africa Today

Africa Today

Etuk Ubong

Night Dieamei

Rating: ★★★★

Hailed by Seun Kuti as ‘one of the best things to come out of Lagos,’ the trumpeter and composer Etuk...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020

Review of Black Atlantica Edits

Black Atlantica Edits

Daniel Haaksman

BBE Music

Rating: ★★★

Daniel Haaksman sees himself as somewhat of an auteur when it comes to music from across the globe. The Berlin-based...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2020

Review of Spiders Tango

Spiders Tango

Kuljit Bhamra & Davide Giovannini (featuring The Villiers Quartet)

Keda Recoeds

Rating: ★★★

Kuljit Bhamra's quicksilver innovative, virtuosic talent is well known, well respected and very much enjoyed by tabla afficionados, percussionists and...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2020

Review of Cuban Jazz Report

Cuban Jazz Report

Cuban Jazz Report

Stunt

Rating: ★★★★

Thanks to its state-sponsored conservatoires Cuba has long been a petri dish for maestro-worthy musicality. Cuban Jazz Report is a...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2020

Review of The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers

The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers

Yīn Yīn

Bongo Joe

Rating: ★★★

For this release, four musicians from Maastricht, the Netherlands get together and jam, playing disco, funk and rock filtered through...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: July/2020

Review of Insides Revealed

Insides Revealed

Sauljaljui

Wind Music International Corporation

Rating: ★★★★

Insides Revealed, the debut album by Taiwanese indigenous singer Sauljaljui, takes inspiration from her Paiwan tribal roots, and combines traditional...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2020

Review of Make Your Move

Make Your Move

Trad.Attack!

Made in Baltics

Rating: ★★★★

Trad.Attack! are a phenomenon in Estonia, their homeland, where since their inception in 2013 the trio have swept the board...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2020

Review of El Camino de Los Vientos

El Camino de Los Vientos

Matthieu Saglio Quartet

ACT Records

Rating: ★★★★

French-born agronomist Matthieu Saglio traded soil and crops for the sweetly sorrowful sound of the cello when he moved to...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: July/2020

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