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Review of Mujeres

Mujeres

Diana Baroni, Ronald Martin Alonso & Rafael Guel

Aparté

Rating: ★★★★

Mujeres weaves together classical and Latin styles in a breathtaking tribute to the women of the New World. The album...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: May/2023

Review of The Woman at the End of the World

The Woman at the End of the World

Elza Soares

Top of the World

Mais Um Discos

Rating: ★★★★★

Elza Soares has been one of Brazil's most controversial samba singers ever since her career began in the late 1950s,...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2016

Review of Artemis

Artemis

Moussu T e lei Jovents

Le Chant du Monde

Rating: ★★★★

You’ve got to hand it to them, Mr T and friends have churned out an impressive output, producing five studio...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: July/2013

Review of Euphoric Ouroboric

Euphoric Ouroboric

David Wax Museum

Mark of the Leopard

Rating: ★★★

David Wax and Suz Slezak are the husband-and-wife duo fronting the Mexo-Americana troupe David Wax Museum. Recorded in the couple’s...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2021

Review of The New Line

The New Line

Boys of the Lough

Boys of the Lough

Rating: ★★★★

Can this really be the Boys of the Lough's 23rd album? It's remarkable to think so as they sound as...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2015

Review of Anamores

Anamores

Ani Cordero

Panapén Records

Rating: ★★★

Earlier in the year, this Puerto Rican singer, drummer and social activist released a righteously indignant single about, she explained,...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/September/2023

Review of Chahâr

Chahâr

Meelodi

Meelodi

Rating: ★★★★

Meaning ‘four’ in Persian, Chahâr unsurprisingly follows Meelodi’s third album – The Great Blue Wheel – which drew in musicians...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2023

Review of Cantigas

Cantigas

Nilza Costa

Bruttere Moderne

Rating: ★★★★★★★

On Cantigas Nilza Costa takes a direct approach to music that is often exoticised or treated as ornament. Born in...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2026

Review of Rivers from Ogun

Rivers from Ogun

Ticora

Inouie

Rating: ★★★

The French-Swiss quartet of organist Cédric Schaerer, drummer Hadrien Santos Da Silva, tenor sax player Arthur Donnot and guitarist Erwan...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2022

Review of Message in a Bottle

Message in a Bottle

Ingrid Henderson

Old Laundry Productions

Rating: ★★★★

Opening with the comforting sound of waves lapping on a shore, Ingrid Henderson’s new self-penned album is a beautifully atmospheric...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2021

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