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Review of Gnawa Electric Laune

Gnawa Electric Laune

Rabii Harnoune & VB Kühl

Tru Thoughts

Rating: ★★★

This is an album that has me very much in two minds. It's a fusion of Gnawa music from Morocco...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2020

Review of Iquitos – Amazonía – Perú

Iquitos – Amazonía – Perú

Ranily su Conjunto Tropical

Analog Africa Vinyl & Digital Only

Rating: ★★★

Through the 1970s Raul Llerena (aka Ranil) took his band up and down the Amazon from their base in Iquitos,...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2020

Review of A Day Will Come

A Day Will Come

Will Pound

Top of the World

Lulubug Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Last summer, when the people of Britain were discussing leaving the European Union and what this meant, harmonica and melodeon...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2020

Review of Connexion

Connexion

Peppino D'Agostino

Peppino D''Agostino Music

Rating: ★★★

With his first solo album in six years, the US-based Italian guitarist and composer puts his warm, ear-enveloping signature tone...

Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: June/2020

Review of Good Times Older

Good Times Older

Jack Sharp

From Here Records

Rating: ★★★

While there hasThnever been a dearthThof men picking upThacoustic guitars andThrecording folkThalbums, there hasThbeen a notable slew of them recently.ThImpressive...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: June/2020

Review of L'Udová Hudba Pokošovci 2

L'Udová Hudba Pokošovci 2

Pokošovci Band

Tradana

Rating: ★★★

Pokošovci Band are a Slovak Gypsy group largely made up of members of the Pokoš family. They are based in...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2020

Review of Hypernova

Hypernova

Jiggy

Big Beat Music

Rating: ★★★★

This seven-piece collective are back with their much anticipated second album following the success of their debut, Translate, in 2017....

Reviewed by Rachel Cunniffe in issue: June/2020

Review of Taiko Do: Echo of the Soul

Taiko Do: Echo of the Soul

KyoShinDo

ARC Music

Rating: ★★

As we saw in the March issue (#155), the craze for Japanese taiko drumming is far reaching. KyoShinDo are a...

Reviewed by Michael Church in issue: June/2020

Review of My Enemy, My Love

My Enemy, My Love

Mentrix

House of Strength Records Vinyl & Digital Only

Rating: ★★★★

Iranian-born singer Mentrix's debut combines rhythms of the daf (frame drum) with haunting Gothic melodies and engaging electronics. Opener ‘Nature’...

Reviewed by Thomas Graves in issue: June/2020

Review of Indigo Soul

Indigo Soul

Unnati

Indigo Soul

Rating: ★★★

A confident and exhilarating album, Indigo Soul suffers slightly from a trade description issue. Unnati is presented as a ‘London...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2020

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