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Review of Eu Andava Como Se Fosse Voar

Eu Andava Como Se Fosse Voar

Aiace

Aiace

Rating: ★★★

A title that translates as ‘I Walked as if I Were Flying’ somehow suggests this north-eastern Brazilian singer’s ambition both...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2024

Review of Un Hombre de Buenos Aires

Un Hombre de Buenos Aires

Jorge López Ruiz

Altercat

Rating: ★★★★★

Jazz and tango had parallel evolutions, emerging in marginalised areas, gravitating to their respective centres and then going global. When...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2024

Review of Waillee Waillee

Waillee Waillee

Dorothy Carter

Palto Flats / Putojefe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Released in 1978, Waillee Waillee is the second full-length album from Dorothy Carter, composer, Mediæval Bæbes founder and master of...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: March/2024

Review of This is What I Want to Say

This is What I Want to Say

Martyn Joseph

Pipe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Throughout a career spanning 40 years, nearly that many albums and thousands of live performances, the Welsh singer-songwriter with the...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2024

Review of Badieh II

Badieh II

Badieh

Worlds Within Worlds

Rating: ★★★★

Formed around the nucleus of Michel Gasco (rubab, oud) and Mohammad Miraghazadeh (tar, setar), Badieh is an exploration of the...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2024

Review of Supra

Supra

Dijf Sanders

Unday Records

Rating: ★★★

Globetrotting sound artist Dijf Sanders’ latest sonic trip was to Georgia in the South Caucasus in 2022. Previous field recording...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: March/2024

Review of Deep of Time

Deep of Time

Cory Seznec

Captain Pouch Records

Rating: ★★★

Cory Seznec’s fourth album, Deep of Time, conceived and produced during the COVID-19 lockdown, presents a contemplative, metaphysical, ethereal side...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2024

Review of African Acoustic

African Acoustic

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Putamayo

Rating: ★★★

A few years back Songlines used to be deluged with multi-artist budget-priced compilations like this one. Indeed, there were so...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2024

Review of The Three Seasons of the Andes – Kimsa Pachanka

The Three Seasons of the Andes – Kimsa Pachanka

Los Ruphay

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

The Aymara herders of Bolivia refer to three annual seasons: Lupi Pacha (dry season), Jallu Pacha (rainy season) and Thaya...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: January/February/2024

Review of Aspan

Aspan

Sababa 5

Batov Records

Rating: ★★★

For their second album, Tel Aviv-based instrumental group Sababa 5 move away from the rather self-conscious pan-global hotchpotch that characterised...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: January/February/2024

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