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Review of Cañonazo

Cañonazo

Johnny Pacheco

Craft Recordings Latino

Rating: ★★★

Pacheco was a co-founder of the legendary Fania Records, and this was the label's first release, as rather than work...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: November/2024

Review of Gran’s House

Gran’s House

Indian Man

Real World X

Rating: ★★★★

Bristol-based DJ and producer Jay Singh, AKA Indian Man, joins a wave of artists of South Asian descent putting their...

Reviewed by Izzy Felton in issue: November/2024

Review of Acadia

Acadia

Yasmin Williams

Top of the World

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★★

Yasmin Williams’ Nonesuch Records debut features the acoustic fingerstyle/lap-tapping guitarist in a variety of solo and ensemble settings across nine...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2024

Review of Details

Details

Driss El Maloumi Trio & Watar Quintet

Contre Jour/Zig Zag World

Rating: ★★★★

Moroccan oud player Driss El Maloumi has cropped up frequently in these pages, both with a couple of Top of...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2024

Review of Kanzafula

Kanzafula

Ahmed Moneka

Ahmed Moneka

Rating: ★★★

This album is more transnational than the subtitle (Afro Iraqi Sufi Music) suggests. The instruments used include a synthesiser, saxophone...

Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: November/2024

Review of Simple Pleasures

Simple Pleasures

Alison Brown

Compass Records Group

Rating: ★★★★★

Pioneering banjo player, composer and a key leading lady of bluegrass, Alison Brown wears many hats of leadership. She grew...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: November/2024

Review of We

We

Vigüela

Mapamundi Música

Rating: ★★★★

Vigüela, a traditional Central Spanish folk quintet, take inspiration from US ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, using the Castillian songbook as a...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2024

Review of Viva Tu

Viva Tu

Manu Chao

Because Music

Rating: ★★★★★

It has been 17 years since Manu Chao’s last studio album, 2007’s La Radiolina – but then he has never...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2024

Review of Talkie Talkie

Talkie Talkie

Los Bitchos

City Slang Records

Rating: ★★★★

London-based instrumental four-piece Los Bitchos draw their heritage and all-female members from the UK, Sweden, Uruguay, Australia and Turkey, and...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2024

Review of 8 Sonneurs pour Philip Glass

8 Sonneurs pour Philip Glass

Erwan Keravec

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

Breton sonneur Keravec has long taken the bagpipes into new territories; no mean feat for an instrument so ancient. Early...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: November/2024

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