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Review of Origem

Origem

Luiz Murá

Luiz Murá

Rating: ★★

Luiz Murá is a diverse musician. He sings in Portuguese, Japanese, English and Italian, performs samba, bossa nova or any...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2020

Review of Saudade, Colour of Love

Saudade, Colour of Love

Maria Mendes

Challenge Records

Rating: ★★★

Maria Mendes is a Portuguese jazz singer that has developed her career in The Netherlands for the last 15 years....

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Shivelight

Shivelight

Mishaped Pearls

Misshapen Records

Rating: ★★★

‘Shivelight’ is the light that dances and dapples through a canopy of trees; something that captures the essence of the...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2018

Review of Kalba

Kalba

Isaac Birituro & The Rail Abandon

Wah Wah 45s

Rating: ★★★

Recorded in a church in north Ghana, this charity-driven collaboration between Ghanaian xylophonist Isaac Birituro and British producer and singer-songwriter...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: October/2019

Review of RDS-202

RDS-202

KermesZ à l'Est

KermesZ à I''Est

Rating: ★★★★

KermesZ à l'Est are not only the wildest Balkan band in Belgium, but probably on the planet. I first encountered...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2020

Review of And it Was Good

And it Was Good

The Andrew Collins Trio

Andrew Collins Trio

Rating: ★★★★

While I can't claim to have coined it, the term ‘chambergrass’ is the nearly perfect one-word description of the music...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2017

Review of Sons da Terra Vol 1

Sons da Terra Vol 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Wapapura

Rating: ★★★

This is a beautiful collection of live performances in the Monasterio de Santa Cristina in the Ribeiro Sacra region of...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2017

Review of La Madrugá

La Madrugá

Yasser Tejeda

One RPM

Rating: ★★★★

This new album from Yasser Tejeda comprises a slick and very enjoyable collection of nine tracks merging two distinct traits...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: August/September/2023

Review of Song Up In Her Head

Song Up In Her Head

Sarah Jarosz

Top of the World

Sugar Hill SUGCD4049

Rating: ★★★★★

It’s extremely hard to get past the fact that this multi– instrumentalist bluegrass super-talent from Texas is only 19 years...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Deixaas

Deixaas

Mercedes Peón

Top of the World

Altafonte

Rating: ★★★★★

Mercedes Peon's exploratory lyricism, manic multi-instrumentalism, dynamic live shows, and even her punky cropped hair, have lent Galician folk an...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

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