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Review of Lina_Raül Refree

Lina_Raül Refree

Lina_Raül Refree

Glitterbeat

Rating: ★★

Producer and multi-instrumentalist Raül Refree made his name on the world music circuit by producing the acclaimed first album by...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Blurring Into Motion

Blurring Into Motion

Charlie Cawood

Bad Elephant Music

Rating: ★★★★

Whereas his lush debut The Divine Abstract was written and orchestrated over a seven-year period, London multi-instrumentalist and composer Cawood's...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Sojourns: Volume 1

Sojourns: Volume 1

Nava

Nava

Rating: ★★★

Following 2017's Tapestry, Nava are here again to prove that Irish and Persian music are not as unlikely bedfellows as...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of The Golden Lagoon

The Golden Lagoon

King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band

Kin-Aesthetic Recordings VINYL & DIGITAL ONLY

Rating: ★★

King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band (henceforth referred to as KLFSDB for the sake of trees and inkwells everywhere) present...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Blue Raag

Blue Raag

Samasa

Pan Records

Rating: ★★★★

A musical melting-pot, filtering Indian and Indonesian idioms, scales and off-kilter time signatures through blues-laced jazz, Blue Raag is the...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Párhuzamok és Kontrasztok

Párhuzamok és Kontrasztok

Muzsikás & Amadinda

Fonó

Rating: ★★★★

Amazingly Muzsikás' last record, The Bartók Album, came out in 1998 and was a Top of the World in #1....

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Simido

Simido

Moonlight Benjamin

Ma Case Records

Rating: ★★★

Siltane, the explosive debut solo album by the singer Moonlight Benjamin, was a Top of the World in #141 and...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Calico Soul

Calico Soul

Farafi

Piranha

Rating: ★★★

The magic of like minds, especially musical ones, is that they often seem to meet serendipitously, and nowhere more so...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Houdoud

Houdoud

Bab El West

Top of the World

Big Banana Music

Rating: ★★★★

Houdoud, meaning ‘Frontier’, is the second album from the Paris-based ensemble Bab El West, and the theme of exploring borders...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of In Search of the Lost City of the Monkey God

In Search of the Lost City of the Monkey God

The Sorcerers

ATA Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Sorcerers' second album presents itself as the ‘soundtrack to the motion picture,’ but don't be looking for it on...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

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