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Review of Early Home Recordings

Early Home Recordings

Sandy Denny

Earth Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded at home to her finger-picking accompaniment in Wimbledon in 1966 and 1967 – Denny's performing debut was at Kingston's...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2024

Review of Sa.Li.Va

Sa.Li.Va

Ayom

Ayom/Believe

Rating: ★★★★

After resettling to Barcelona in 2011, Brazilian singer and percussionist Jabu Morales joined Italian accordionist Alberto Becucci in a band...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2024

Review of Nieves de Enero

Nieves de Enero

Chalino Sánchez

Craft Recordings Latino

Rating: ★★★

Dubbed ‘Godfather of the Corrido’, Chalino Sánchez was shot dead in 1992, aged only 31, after a concert in which...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: November/2024

Review of Wirlmarni

Wirlmarni

Kankawa Nagarra

Mississippi Records/Flippin Yeah Records

Rating: ★★★

Indigenous Walmatjarri elder Kankawa Nagarra (Olive Knight) hails from the remote Aboriginal community of Wangkatjunka, in Australia’s northwestern Kimberley region....

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2024

Review of Cuckoo

Cuckoo

Lemon Bucket Orkestra

Lemon Bucket Orkestra

Rating: ★★★

Toronto-based Lemon Bucket Orchestra are Canada's version of Gogol Bordello and, like Eugene Hütz, it seems a good many of...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2024

Review of Cañonazo

Cañonazo

Johnny Pacheco

Craft Recordings Latino

Rating: ★★★

Pacheco was a co-founder of the legendary Fania Records, and this was the label's first release, as rather than work...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: November/2024

Review of Gran’s House

Gran’s House

Indian Man

Real World X

Rating: ★★★★

Bristol-based DJ and producer Jay Singh, AKA Indian Man, joins a wave of artists of South Asian descent putting their...

Reviewed by Izzy Felton in issue: November/2024

Review of Acadia

Acadia

Yasmin Williams

Top of the World

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★★

Yasmin Williams’ Nonesuch Records debut features the acoustic fingerstyle/lap-tapping guitarist in a variety of solo and ensemble settings across nine...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2024

Review of Details

Details

Driss El Maloumi Trio & Watar Quintet

Contre Jour/Zig Zag World

Rating: ★★★★

Moroccan oud player Driss El Maloumi has cropped up frequently in these pages, both with a couple of Top of...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2024

Review of Kanzafula

Kanzafula

Ahmed Moneka

Ahmed Moneka

Rating: ★★★

This album is more transnational than the subtitle (Afro Iraqi Sufi Music) suggests. The instruments used include a synthesiser, saxophone...

Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: November/2024

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