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Review of Anarchist Gospel

Anarchist Gospel

Sunny War

Top of the World

New West Records

Rating: ★★★★

The title of Sunny War's fourth album, Anarchist Gospel, gets to the bones of the singer-songwriter's guerilla art. Until recently,...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2023

Review of Octophilia

Octophilia

KermesZ à l’Est

Top of the World

KermesZ à l’Est

Rating: ★★★★

KermesZ à l’Est are extraordinary mash-up merchants. Their name is invented to sound Eastern European and the eight-piece Belgian band...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2023

Review of Bring It On

Bring It On

Trad.Attack!

Trad.Attack! Music

Rating: ★★★★

Estonia's folk music is noted for its lyrical richness and depth of local and national feeling, rather than for highly...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2023

Review of Morîk

Morîk

Danûk

Top of the World

Omni Sounds

Rating: ★★★★

This is a fascinating debut album from a group of exiled Middle Eastern musicians, mostly Kurdish, who are now based...

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: July/2023

Review of Taa! – Our Language May Be Dying, But Our Voices Remain (Botswana)

Taa! – Our Language May Be Dying, But Our Voices Remain (Botswana)

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★

A project from Hidden Musics, an international music series of field-recorded albums produced by award-winning music producer Ian Brennan and...

Reviewed by Hillary Palesa Morusi in issue: August/September/2023

Review of Substrat

Substrat

Guillem Ballaz

Segell Microscopi

Rating: ★★★★

Guillem Ballaz is a musician and musical historian who has set out to explore and revitalise the Catalan folk songs...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: August/September/2023

Review of Stretching Skyward

Stretching Skyward

Gnoss

Blackfly Records

Rating: ★★★

Gnoss (like Talisk, Eriska and TRIP) are part of Glasgow's lively music scene, though the band originated in Scotland's Northern...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: August/September/2023

Review of On the Path of the Shirazis

On the Path of the Shirazis

ARASHKHA

Artis Mundi Records

Rating: ★★★

This album is aimed squarely at festival dance music tents and clubs. Afro-Electric DJ ARASHKHA (Arash Khalatbari) is a man...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: August/September/2023

Review of Lost & Found

Lost & Found

Nick Beggs

Nick Beggs

Rating: ★★★

Nick Beggs has a career extending back to the high point of early 80s New Romantic pop, and the band...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2023

Review of Toda un Alegría

Toda un Alegría

Adriano Galante

Top of the World

Halley Records

Rating: ★★★★★

It's very difficult to pigeonhole the music of Barcelona's Adriano Galante, although ‘understated Hispanophone quietism with a very distant nod...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: October/2023

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