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Review of Deep Sea Vents

Deep Sea Vents

BrhyM

Zappo Productions / Thirty Tigers

Rating: ★★★

Deep Sea Vents is a self-consciously quirky, sometimes witty and occasionally beguiling ten-track album of songs by Bruce Hornsby in...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2024

Review of Nasim-e Sahar

Nasim-e Sahar

Bahareh Fayazi & Asareh Shekarchi

Little Axe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Nasim-e Sahar, featuring the duo of Bahareh Fayazi on tar and Asareh Shekarchi on tombak and avaz (Iranian classical singing),...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: May/2024

Review of All My Friends

All My Friends

Aoife O’Donovan

Top of the World

Yep Roc Records

Rating: ★★★★

A little more than a century after the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution secured American women the right to...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2024

Review of Süeda Sings Sezen Aksu

Süeda Sings Sezen Aksu

Süeda Çatakoğlu

Ahenk Müzik

Rating: ★★★★

Sezen Aksu: an unconventional contemporary female public figure in Turkey, for half a century she commented with her songs on...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2024

Review of Way Highly

Way Highly

Brad Fielder

Brad Fielder

Rating: ★★★

A salty dog of an album, Oklahoma roots musician and one-man band Brad Fielder’s new album (or long-ish EP), Way...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: May/2024

Review of Saru l-Qamar

Saru l-Qamar

A Lily

Phantom Limb

Rating: ★★★★

Shivers. Another manifestation of electro-ambient-music from the Global South. I had to think of Naujawanan Baidar’s Khedmat Be Khalq, the...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: May/2024

Review of NRTYA

NRTYA

SAICOBAB

Thrill Jockey

Rating: ★★

NRTYA is an easy record to celebrate but a difficult one to enjoy. The album fully realises its mission of...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2024

Review of Out of the Ashes

Out of the Ashes

Julie Abbé

Julie Abbé

Rating: ★★★★

Folk, blues, swing, world music and jazz combine to weave their trade winds across UK-based French singer Julie Abbé’s fine...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2024

Review of Badā

Badā

Farah Kaddour

Asadun Alay

Rating: ★★★

Farah Kaddour’s inaugural solo venture, Badā, unfolds as a deliberate exploration of the buzuq, a Persian lute akin to the...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: May/2024

Review of Cuimhne Ghlinn: Explorations in Irish Music for Pedal Steel Guitar

Cuimhne Ghlinn: Explorations in Irish Music for Pedal Steel Guitar

David Murphy

Top of the World

Rollercoaster Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Two worlds, two traditions, collide to enjoyable effect in David Murphy’s long-playing debut, Cuimhne Ghlinn, its Explorations in Irish Music...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2024

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