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Review of Life & Time

Life & Time

Mike Reid & Joe Henry

Work Song Inc / Thirty Tigers

Rating: ★★★★

Two Grammy-winning songwriters – one a former NFL footballer, Mike Reid, whose heavily grained voice carries these songs, and the...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2025

Review of Vendrán Suaves Lluvias

Vendrán Suaves Lluvias

Silvana Estrada

Glassnote Records

Rating: ★★★★

Silvana Estrada says she studied at a jazz conservatory so she could “use my voice as an instrument”, and with...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2025

Review of MACHETE

MACHETE

Bejuco

Top of the World

Discos Pacífico

Rating: ★★★★

The second album from this dynamic outfit from Tumaco in Colombia’s Pacific region follows their 2021 debut, Batea, which introduced...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2025

Review of Living Being IV (Time Reflections)

Living Being IV (Time Reflections)

Vincent Peirani | Vincent Peirani

ACT

Rating: ★★★

It’s French accordionist Peirani whose name is on this album, however, it should be joined by another: soprano saxophonist Emile...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2025

Review of Earth Is Begging

Earth Is Begging

Sunbörn Meets Clap! Clap!

Wah Wah 45s

Rating: ★★★★

After a decade of being The KutiMangoes, in 2022, the Denmark-based band rebranded as Sunbörn, vowing to “bring people together”...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2025

Review of Dakan

Dakan

Orchestra Gold

Top of the World

Orchestra Gold

Rating: ★★★★

As opening statements go, you can’t get much more gloriously emphatic than ‘Diyanye Ko’ which kicks off the fourth album...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2025

Review of There Is Beauty, There Already

There Is Beauty, There Already

Sarathy Korwar

Top of the World

Otherland

Rating: ★★★★

Drummer and composer Sarathy Korwar’s seventh album is a singular experiment in slow listening and percussive potential. It emerges alongside...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2025

Review of La Giostra

La Giostra

Kërkim

Liburia Records

Rating: ★★★

Kërkim (Albanian for ‘Research’) is an Apulian five-piece outfit augmented with a few guests. The result might be wrongly filed...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2021

Review of Instar

Instar

Nancy Kerr

Little Dish Records

Rating: ★★★★

Ecology, politics, and the rigours and inequities of the present framed by the struggles and injustices of the past are...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2016

Review of Weapon of Choice

Weapon of Choice

Airileke

Top of the World

Wantok Musik

Rating: ★★★★

Airileke Ingram is a Melbourne-based percussionist/producer who's been omnipresent in the Australian world music scene since the mid-90s. Raised in...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Apr/May/2013

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