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Review of Dom Salvador JID024

Dom Salvador JID024

Dom Salvador, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammed

Jazz is Dead

Rating: ★★★

After collaborating with Brazilian notables like Marcos Valle, João Donato and Azymuth, the workaholic studio partners, Younge & Muhammed, have...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: September/2025

Review of When Will They Ever Learn? – A Story Of US Folk Music 1963–1969

When Will They Ever Learn? – A Story Of US Folk Music 1963–1969

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

Cherry Red

Rating: ★★★★★

Cinema has in recent years given the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s a legendary – perhaps even mythical...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: September/2025

Review of Yörüklük

Yörüklük

Elena Baklava

CPL-Music

Rating: ★★★

Elena Hristova has performed with the Macedonian group Baklava since 2006, but now for her solo career she calls herself,...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: September/2025

Review of Mirra

Mirra

Benedicte Maurseth

Top of the World

Hubro

Rating: ★★★★★

Benedicte Maurseth's love of, and inspiration in, the environment of the wind-swept alpine Hardangervidda plateau in Norway – where she...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: September/2025

Review of El Viejo Caminante

El Viejo Caminante

Dino Saluzzi, Jacob Young, José María Saluzzi

ECM Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Argentinian father-and-son team of Dino and José María Saluzzi, who play bandoneon and classical guitar respectively, are joined here...

Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: September/2025

Review of A Selection of Music from Libyan Tapes

A Selection of Music from Libyan Tapes

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

Habibi Funk

Rating: ★★★★★

A spacey buzz is slowly cranked up in volume as Cheb Bakr's ‘Allom’ opens this collection of Libyan cassette tracks....

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: September/2025

Review of Curandero

Curandero

Orkesta Mendoza

Top of the World

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

The US/Mexican frontier is a hotspot of hope and anguish, drugs and guns, rednecks and refugees. Orkesta Mendoza, formed by...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2020

Review of Pipers

Pipers

Clarinet Factory

Supraphon

Rating: ★★★★

I’m a big fan of the clarinet. Of all the wind instruments it has the widest and most varied range...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2020

Review of IYA: Songs for the Mothers

IYA: Songs for the Mothers

London Lucumi Choir

Lucumi Choir Records

Rating: ★★★

For their fifth album, London's Afro-Cuban community choir build on their tradition of performing songs to the Orishas (Yoruba deities)...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2023

Review of Maghreb Lyon

Maghreb Lyon

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Frémeaux et Associés

Rating: ★★★★

The role of Paris and Marseille in the production of North African music in France is well documented: less so...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2014

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