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Review of Y Su Descarga Internacional

Y Su Descarga Internacional

Bosq

Bacalao Records

Rating: ★★★

US producer Bosq has been making tropical bass since the early 2010s, regularly working with musicians from Africa and the...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of Rewilding

Rewilding

Richard Durrant

The Burning Deck

Rating: ★★★

Listening to the third solo album from composer and guitarist Richard Durrant invites in a gentle English pastoral scene. Tours...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of Providence

Providence

Katy Carr

Deluce Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Katy Carr is an unusual and original singer- songwriter. She is fascinated by history, has a giftfor strong, upbeat melodies,...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of OPE

OPE

Riddim Doctors

Earshot Media

Rating: ★★

Since moving to the US more than 30 years ago, percussionist Sikiru Adepoju has played his talking drums with the...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of Quest Ensemble: The Other Side

Quest Ensemble: The Other Side

PFT Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This stunning sophomore release from London-based Quest Ensemble is a thing of beauty and brilliance, artfully embodying, as it does,...

Reviewed in issue October/2020

Review of A Casual Invocation

A Casual Invocation

Cunning Folk

Dharma Records

Rating: ★★★★

George Hoyle, aka Cunning Folk, is a folklorist, storyteller, folk artist, magical ritualist, a former member of Gay Dad, Circulus,...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Abrazo

Abrazo

Vincent Peirani

Top of the World

ACT

Rating: ★★★★

Warm, tango-inspired runnings from the Paris-based duo of accordionist Vincent Peirani and soprano saxophonist Emile Parisien, whose palpable rapport has...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Zan

Zan

Liraz

Top of the World

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Iranian Jewish artist Liraz is a big star in Israel, where her family have been based since the 1970s, and...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Escape Plan

Escape Plan

Thornato

Wonderwheel Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Since first hearing Thornato’s edits of dancehall and Afro-Colombian folk music in the early 2010s, it’s remarkable how his MO...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Bombyx Mori

Bombyx Mori

3, 14

Worlds Within Worlds

Rating: ★★★★

This is an extremely elegant and accomplished record. But that should come as no surprise as it features three extremely...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

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