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Review of Rwandance

Rwandance

Andi Otto

Shika Shika

Rating: ★★★★

Moments in German multi-instrumentalist Andi Otto's third album could easily find home on experimental dance floors, but that doesn't mean...

Reviewed by Nick Hann in issue: December/2019

Review of HaitaNola

HaitaNola

Lakou Mizik

Top of the World

Cumbancha

Rating: ★★★★

Haitian roots revival outfit Lakou Mizik prompted double takes with their 2016 debut album Wa Di Do, a work that...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2019

Review of The Reckoning

The Reckoning

John Tams

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

Topic's series of reissues from its back catalogue in celebration of its 80th year continues to impress with this deluxe...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2019

Review of Sonocardiogram

Sonocardiogram

Daymé Arocena

Top of the World

Brownswood Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

Fronting big bands by 14, Cuban singer Daymé Arocena is now 27 and releasing her fourth album for Brownswood Recordings,...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: December/2019

Review of A Moss'!

A Moss'!

La Mòssa

La Curieuse

Rating: ★★★★

La Mòssa – ‘The Movement’ – refers to the café-chantant scene of Naples in the 1920s and describes the alluring...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: December/2019

Review of Iram

Iram

Cimbaliband

Fonó

Rating: ★★★

Appropriately enough this disc begins with the gently rippling sound of the cimbalom before taking of into the catchy opening...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2019

Review of Wheels of the World

Wheels of the World

Granny's Attic

Grimdon Records

Rating: ★★★★

This English folk trio may be young (they're only in their early 20s) but they're already celebrating a decade of...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2019

Review of Trallalero Levantin

Trallalero Levantin

Orchestra Bailam e Canterini Genovesi

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

Trallalero is traditional Genoese polyphonic a capella choir singing, described by Alan Lomax after his post-war field recording trip as...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: December/2019

Review of Historia Natural

Historia Natural

Los Pirañas

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

The three members of Colombia's Los Pirañas have been making music together in various guises since the late 90s and...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2019

Review of El Carretero

El Carretero

Guillermo Portabales

World Circuit

Rating: ★★★★

It's not often that an album comes along with an opening track so compelling it begs several listens before you...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2019

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