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Review of Right of Passage

Right of Passage

Touki

Captain Pouch Records

Rating: ★★★

Franco-American guitar and banjo player Cory Seznec and Senegalese guitarist-turned-kora player Amadou Diagne first met while busking on the streets...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Liga Latina

Liga Latina

Liga Latina

Multination

Rating: ★★★★

Liga Latina have been described as ‘a European supergroup.’ Well, they're a quintet of Scandinavian musicians steeped in Latin and...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Grown

Grown

Waaju

Olindo Records

Rating: ★★★★

Waaju are an innovative Afro-Latin quintet, led by drummer Ben Brown, who regularly performs with Newham's Alfa Mist. This project,...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Review of The Gap

The Gap

India Electric Co

Shoelay Music

Rating: ★★★★

It's been five long years since India Electric Co released their debut, The Girl I Left Behind Me. In that...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Songs of Hard Times: Up, Over and Through

Songs of Hard Times: Up, Over and Through

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Real-to-Reel Records

Rating: ★★★

Smart work from the good folk who run the Alan Lomax Archives – from a catalogue of sound recordings spanning...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Simurg

Simurg

Compro Oro with Murat Ertel & Esma Ertel

Sdban Records

Rating: ★★★

Simurg is the third album from Belgian psychedelic collective Compro Oro. The album is a collaboration between the group and...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Wabi Sabi

Wabi Sabi

Sven Wunder

Light in the Attic Records

Rating: ★★★

Sometimes an album title immediately makes you want to return it, unheard. Such is the case with the nonsensically titled...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Nayda!

Nayda!

Bab L’ Bluz

Top of the World

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Nayda, or ‘waking up,’ was the word given to the alternative music scene 2000s in the wake of the Arab...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Istanbul

Istanbul

Shantel & Cümbüs Cemaat

Essay Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Given that Frankfurt DJ and producer Shantel had already gone to his ancestral home in the old borderlands of the...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

Review of No Summer

No Summer

Cinder Well

Free Dirt Records

Rating: ★★★

Welcome to the Radie Peat academy of drone singing, for the powerful example of Lankum and how they have turned...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2020

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