Reviews
Cape Verdean Blues
Award-winning vocalist Kavita Shah presents a homage to the legendary Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora, as well as an expression...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2023
Microfolk 1-3
Chaz Knapp, Cy Werner & Chaz Prymek
The deeply impressionistic, pointillist improvisations spread across these three wonderful collaborative cassette releases are like subtle adornments to the natural...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: December/2023
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Two very different but equally enjoyable reissues from the Munster umbrella of labels, both dating to late-60s Peru. First up,...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: December/2023
Círculo Radiante
Folk singer and experimental artist Soema Montenegro, born in Buenos Aires, has produced her fifth album in tribute to the...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: December/2023
Spirits
It’s easy to overlook Togo, wedged between Ghana, Benin and Nigeria. Musically that places its capital, Lomé, right in the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2023
The Father of Libyan Reggae
Often artists may be hailed as originators of a certain musical style when actually, it’s a matter of taste and/or...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: December/2023
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Pioneer Works Swing (Live)
Hailu Mergia | Hailu Mergia & The Walias
Not only did the Éthiopiques series make available a treasure of little known music from the golden age of Ethiopian...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2023
tds bem Global
Joãozinho was previously a member of the idealistic and anti-imperialist ROSABEGE, and now, seemingly out of nowhere, produces this fully-formed,...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: December/2023
Au Coeur de l’Aube
The Québécois trio of fiddler Pascal Gemme, guitarist Yann Falquet and relative newcomer flautist/accordion player Nicholas Willams deliver their eleventh...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2023
