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Review of North Star Calling

North Star Calling

Leela Gilday

Top of the World

Diva Sound Records

Rating: ★★★★★

When listening to Leela Gilday's latest album, North Star Calling, one is instantly transported to a vast land of powerful...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

Review of Ritmos Queridos

Ritmos Queridos

Simon Bolzinger

Quart de lune

Rating: ★★★

Based in France, where he organises Marseille's annual Tambory Canto Latin music festival at the Cité de la Musique, Simon...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

Review of Due to the Darkness

Due to the Darkness

The Gossamer Strings

The Gossamer Strings

Rating: ★★★

From the Badlands of South Dakota by way of the Pacific Northwest comes The Gossamer Strings' sophomore album, Due to...

Reviewed in issue May/2020

Review of Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc Sessions

Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc Sessions

Seu Jorge and Rogê

Night Dreamer Records VINYL & DIGITAL ONLY

Rating: ★★★

The friendship between Seu Jorge and Rogê goes back 25 years when the two aspiring musicians met at a gig...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Back to Sustain

Back to Sustain

The Pine Hearts

The Pine Hearts

Rating: ★★★

Like a light hike on an easy trail on a sunny spring afternoon, The Pine Hearts' fourth studio album doesn't...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of L'Amazone: Le Chant des Fleuves

L'Amazone: Le Chant des Fleuves

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Top of the World

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★★★

The Amazon has been imagined as a tree, its trunk passing from Brazil through Colombia and into Peru, with branches...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Vida-Código

Vida-Código

Tiganá Santana

Ajabu!

Rating: ★★★

For Vida-Código -his fourth album and his third on the Swedish Ajabu! label – Tiganá Santana presents very little of...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Calypso Travels

Calypso Travels

Lord Invader & His Calypso Group

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings VINYL ONLY

Rating: ★★★★★

One of three initial releases in the Smithsonian Folkways Vinyl Reissue Series, Calypso Travels features native Trinidadian Lord Invader (born...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Birds

Birds

Da Lata

Da Lata Music

Rating: ★★★★

Can that be the sweet sound of spring? On the strength of this fourth album by beloved London-based tropicalistas Da...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Mozart of the Banjo: The Joe Morley Project

Mozart of the Banjo: The Joe Morley Project

Aaron Jonah Lewis

The Old-Time Tiki Parlour

Rating: ★★★★

Aaron Jonah Lewis' 24-song tribute to the legendary British banjo player and composer Joe Morley (1867-1937) is a fascinating dive...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

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