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Review of Divan & Divine

Divan & Divine

Zeyn’el

Top of the World

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

Zeyn’el is a singer-songwriter who is well-known in the Turkish rock scene as a sound engineer, and some of that...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: August/September/2023

Review of Das Nuvens

Das Nuvens

Fabiano Do Nascimento | Fabiano do Nascimento

Leaving Records

Rating: ★★

Fabiano do Nascimento was born and raised in Rio and São Paulo. For the last decade or so he's been...

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

Review of XIV – A Integração

XIV – A Integração

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Shika Shika

Rating: ★★★★

XIV – A Integração is a wonderfully untidy, uneven pile of ideas, mysticism and sacred touchstones, electro-acoustics and real sound,...

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

Review of Carrying

Carrying

Sally Anne Morgan

Thrill Jockey

Rating: ★★★

Unifying the output of North Carolina-based musician Sally Anne Morgan is not easy. There's her solo albums, 2020's Thread and...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2023

Review of King of the Blind

King of the Blind

Joey Abarta

Joey Abarta

Rating: ★★★

Originally from California, now based in Boston, the young uilleann piper Joey Abarta names his second album after a tune...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2023

Review of Conversations We’ve Had Before

Conversations We’ve Had Before

Eliza Carthy Trio

Eliza Carthy

Rating: ★★★★★

With stalwart melodeon player Saul Rose and sympatico guitarist David Delarre, Eliza Carthy has hit on the perfect combination. They...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2023

Review of Black Attack

Black Attack

Mutabaruka

Top of the World

Ariwa

Rating: ★★★★

40 years since Mutabaruka’s first studio album, and 14 years since his last, this new release from the Jamaican dub...

Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: January/February/2024

Review of El Clan Antillano

El Clan Antillano

El Clan Antillano

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★

A lurid cover, featuring decor worthy of a dream sequence from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, is not the only distinguishing...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2024

Review of Udolç

Udolç

Alba Careta & Henrio

Segell Microscopi

Rating: ★★★★

The Càntut collection is a project dedicated to collecting and disseminating music orally transmitted in the region of Girona, in...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2024

Review of Sing Yonder 1

Sing Yonder 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Sing Yonder

Rating: ★★★

In 2021 graphic designer Karl Sinfield began putting simple arrangements of traditional songs online, with basic chords and audio guidance...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2023

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