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Review of Las Formas del Agua

Las Formas del Agua

Blanca Altable

Segell Microscopi

Rating: ★★★★

Blanca Altable, a Burgos-born violinist and composer, unveils her talent for conjuring vivid imagery on her second solo album, Las...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: April/2024

Review of Bin Dilde

Bin Dilde

Çiçek Taksi

CCK

Rating: ★★★★

‘Flower Taxi’ in English, present their second album, which means ‘in a thousand languages.’ Singer Selin Dettwiler, of Turkish-Kurdish background...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2024

Review of Swingin’ Live at the Church in Tulsa

Swingin’ Live at the Church in Tulsa

The Taj Mahal Sextet

Lightning Rod

Rating: ★★★

Now in his 80s, Taj Mahal is the grand old man of American roots music and follows 2022’s old-timey Get...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2024

Review of EZRA

EZRA

EZRA

Adhyâropa Records

Rating: ★★★★★

With the eponymously titled EZRA, composer, multi-instrumentalist and luthier Jesse Jones establishes his acoustic ensemble as one of our planet’s...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2024

Review of Echoes of Becoming

Echoes of Becoming

Canberk Ulas

Top of the World

Jazzland Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Born in Turkey and residing in Sweden, Canberk Ulas is a player and maker of the Armenian duduk, an ancient...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2024

Review of Abu Kenda

Abu Kenda

Akram Abdulfattah

Levantine and Empire

Rating: ★★★★

Palestinian-American violinist Akram Abdulfattah returns with a first release since his 2022 EP From Here. Abu Kenda (Kenda's Father) is...

Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: November/2024

Review of Gran’s House

Gran’s House

Indian Man

Real World X

Rating: ★★★★

Bristol-based DJ and producer Jay Singh, AKA Indian Man, joins a wave of artists of South Asian descent putting their...

Reviewed by Izzy Felton in issue: November/2024

Review of Wake the Dead

Wake the Dead

Chuck Prophet & ¿Qiensave?

Yep Roc Records

Rating: ★★★

San-Franciscan Chuck Prophet teams up with cumbia urbana group ¿Qiensave? from California with roots in Michoacán, Mexico, on Wake the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: December/2024

Review of New Moon

New Moon

Arun Ramamurthy Trio

Greenleaf Music

Rating: ★★★

This is a very smooth bit of music-making from Carnatic violinist Arun Ramamurthy, accompanied by Damon Banks on bass and...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2024

Review of Sonido Cósmico

Sonido Cósmico

Hermanos Gutiérrez

Easy Eye Sound

Rating: ★★★

Hermanos Gutiérrez have been winning hearts around the world with their transcendent guitar sound recalling desert skies and lonely highways....

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: July/2024

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