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Review of Music For a Revolution Vol 1: Guinea's Syliphone Recording Label (1967–1973)

Music For a Revolution Vol 1: Guinea's Syliphone Recording Label (1967–1973)

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

Radio Martiko

Rating: ★★★★

With Music For a Revolution Vol 1, record label Radio Martiko is giving listeners an extraordinary window into a particular...

Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: September/2025

Review of A Danger To Ourselves

A Danger To Ourselves

Lucrecia Dalt

RVNG Intl

Rating: ★★★★

Anyone expecting more heightened sci-fi concepts and bright instrumentation, as heard on Lucrecia Dalt's breakthrough album ¡Ay! is going to...

Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: September/2025

Review of Himno Vertical

Himno Vertical

Rocío Márquez

Delirioyromero Producciones

Rating: ★★★★

Rocío Márquez is an established singer, experimentalist and PhD graduate intent on refracting flamenco through a 21st-century lens. Steeped in...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2025

Review of Pasé Bél Tan – Francophonies & Creolities in Louisiana

Pasé Bél Tan – Francophonies & Creolities in Louisiana

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

FLEE

Rating: ★★★★★

In their study of the Cajun French of Louisiana, sociolinguists Sylvie Dubois and Megan Melançon describe the weakening of local...

Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: September/2025

Review of Trigger

Trigger

Sharon Mansur

ACT

Rating: ★★★

From the first few bars of the opening track on the debut album by the Israeli keyboardist Sharon Masur, you...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: September/2025

Review of Mirrormouth

Mirrormouth

Branwen

Branwen

Rating: ★★★★

Irish singer, composer, performance artist and puppeteer, Branwen Kavanagh's Mirrormouth shepherds us through a pensive, wistful landscape. Surrealism – both...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: September/2025

Review of Poems & Non-Fiction

Poems & Non-Fiction

Ruth Lyon

Pink Lane Records

Rating: ★★★★

Newcastle-based singer, musician and disability activist Ruth Lyon's Poems & Non-Fiction is a stonking slice of indie-folk, layered with lush...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: September/2025

Review of Orbits

Orbits

The Circling Sun

Soundway Records

Rating: ★★★★

In their debut release Spirit, Auckland-based collective The Circling Sun deftly explored ensemble jazz with an appealing retro feel. Their...

Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: September/2025

Review of Gaudencia

Gaudencia

MC Yallah & Debmaster

Hakuna Kulala

Rating: ★★★★

After listening to an MC Yallah record it's tempted to conclude that every other rapper in the game is slacking....

Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: September/2025

Review of Ordo Virtutum: Jeff Bird Plays Hildegard von Bingen, Volume Two

Ordo Virtutum: Jeff Bird Plays Hildegard von Bingen, Volume Two

Jeff Bird

Top of the World

Jeff Bird

Rating: ★★★★★

Jeff Bird is a musical explorer with a keen interest in the ancient music of German mystic Hildegard of Bingen,...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: September/2025

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