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Review of Devil Told Me

Devil Told Me

Ruby Mack

Top of the World

Ruby Mack

Rating: ★★★★

Superb harmony singing, finely honed songwriting and a pointedly LBGTQ+ take on the acoustic folk and roots genre distinguish Devil...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2020

Review of Ariyo (A Sight to Rejoice)

Ariyo (A Sight to Rejoice)

Kuku

Music Without Passion is Noise

Rating: ★★★★

The sixth studio album from singer-songwriter Kuku is a 16-track affair, wide-ranging in both musical and thematic scope and tied...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2020

Review of Volume 3

Volume 3

QWANQWA

Qwanqwa

Rating: ★★★

If you’ve been paying attention to modern Ethiopian trad music over the past five-odd years, you will have come across...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2020

Review of Simnadé + 4

Simnadé + 4

Pascal Diatta

Ghosts from the Basement

Rating: ★★★★

When this recording was first released as an LP on the Rogue Records label in 1989 it heralded the exciting...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2020

Review of Pandemic Songs

Pandemic Songs

Robb Johnson

Irregular Records

Rating: ★★

Johnson is an English singersongwriter who wears his heart on his sleeve and always fights the good fight. His forefathers...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2020

Review of Tangle of Souls

Tangle of Souls

Scott Cook

Scott Cook

Rating: ★★★

Tangle of Souls is the seventh full-length album by American-born, Edmonton, Alberta-based, globe-trotting troubadour Scott Cook. By full-length, we’re talking...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2020

Review of El Canto del Viento

El Canto del Viento

Amando Risueño

Nuevo Mundo

Rating: ★★★

In 1965, the celebrated Argentinian folk artist Atahualpa Yupanqui published El Canto del Viento, a collection of proems that touched...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2020

Review of Nesrine

Nesrine

Nesrine

ACT

Rating: ★★★★

Once again, the musical alchemy of versatile singer and cellist Nesrine Belmokh enchants us. Former front woman of the NES...

Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: December/2020

Review of Solace

Solace

Alam Khan

Worlds Within Worlds Records

Rating: ★★★

Alam Khan is inevitably introduced as the son of the legendary sarod player Ali Akbar Khan, but on the evidence...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2020

Review of Tempo

Tempo

Rodrigo Costa Félix

Top of the World

Fado World

Rating: ★★★★

It’s eight years since the release of Costa Félix’s last disc. Admittedly, his previous album, Fados de Amor, was a...

Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: December/2020

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