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Review of Supra

Supra

Dijf Sanders

Unday Records

Rating: ★★★

Globetrotting sound artist Dijf Sanders’ latest sonic trip was to Georgia in the South Caucasus in 2022. Previous field recording...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Riverscape

Riverscape

Fabrizio Paterlini

Memory Recordings

Rating: ★

This new album from Italian pianist Paterlini is true to form in following the ambient pattern that has seen him...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Tigre Qui Pleure

Tigre Qui Pleure

El Gato Negro

Top of the World

X-Ray Production / Que Buen Momento

Rating: ★★★★

El Gato Negro is as far from Edgar Allan Poe’s creepy Black Cat as you could get. Hiding behind the...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Badieh II

Badieh II

Badieh

Worlds Within Worlds

Rating: ★★★★

Formed around the nucleus of Michel Gasco (rubab, oud) and Mohammad Miraghazadeh (tar, setar), Badieh is an exploration of the...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Measure, Pour & Mixtape: Music for Cooking

Measure, Pour & Mixtape: Music for Cooking

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Spinster Records

Rating: ★★

This is literally a cassette mixtape, limited to 300 copies, although also available digitally. The mechanics of cooking, the sociability...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of A DOS

A DOS

Lau Noah

Lau Noah

Rating: ★★★

The joyously uncategorisable Catalan singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Lau Noah criss-crossed Europe and the US for more than a year...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of El Terreno

El Terreno

Jacob Gurevitsch

Music for Dreams

Rating: ★★

Jacob Gurevitsch makes sure to stress he is not a flamenco musician – in spite of often being presented as...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Yoshitsune

Yoshitsune

PoiL Ueda

Dur et Doux

Rating: ★★★★

Yoshitsune is a concept album that hits like a comic book punch. The psychedelic hard-rock of French group PoiL proves...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Liminal Silence

Liminal Silence

Sunny Kim, Vardan Ovsepian & Ben Monder

Earshift Music

Rating: ★★★

Now here’s an album that defies easy categorisation, in which Sunny Kim, a Korean-born singer, improviser and composer joins forces...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Deep of Time

Deep of Time

Cory Seznec

Captain Pouch Records

Rating: ★★★

Cory Seznec’s fourth album, Deep of Time, conceived and produced during the COVID-19 lockdown, presents a contemplative, metaphysical, ethereal side...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

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