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Review of Tales of Mozambique

Tales of Mozambique

Count Ossie & the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari

Soul Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

As curators of the excellent 100% Dynamite series, Soul Jazz introduced many to the lesser-known wonders of Jamaican music. On...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2016

Review of Collection of Traditional Musics 31: Peasant Brass Bands From Moldavia

Collection of Traditional Musics 31: Peasant Brass Bands From Moldavia

Şarambel Brass Band from Valea Mare, Vaslui

Ethnophonie

Rating: ★★★

This is the 31st disc in the remarkable collection of recordings of traditional Romanian music started by the late Speranța...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2023

Review of The Songs Which Are

The Songs Which Are

Stranger Still

See Through Music

Rating: ★★★★

This Toronto-based ensemble continue their exploration of musicalising the work of the late self-taught Nova Scotia poet Alden Nowlan, around...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2023

Review of Family Affair

Family Affair

Inna de Yard | Inna De Yard

Chapter Two Records/Wagram

Rating: ★★★★

It's fun to imagine a group of reggae legends hauled up in a villa for days, switching between recording sessions...

Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: July/2023

Review of Inti Watana: El Retorno del Sol

Inti Watana: El Retorno del Sol

Luzmila Carpio

Top of the World

ZZK Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Veteran Bolivian singer Luzmila Carpio, one of the most prolific and well-respected of South American artists, returns here with a...

Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: October/2023

Review of Glimmer

Glimmer

Nils Økland & Sigbjørn Apeland

ECM Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Hardanger fiddle player and violinist Nils Økland and harmonium player Sigbjørn Apeland have been making music together for 30 years,...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2023

Review of Not So Deep as a Well

Not So Deep as a Well

Myriam Gendron

Basin Rock

Rating: ★★★★

For Québec-based musician, Myriam Gendron, it started with a book – a 1936 anthology of the poetry of Dorothy Parker,...

Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: January/February/2024

Review of Sounds, Dreams & Other Stories A Celebration: 60 Years

Sounds, Dreams & Other Stories A Celebration: 60 Years

Airto Moreira & Flora Purim

BBE Music

Rating: ★★★★★

These two prolific octogenarians have represented Brazilian jazz royalty for around six decades, so it’s high time for a three-CD,...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/February/2024

Review of Hadsel

Hadsel

Beirut

Pompeii Records

Rating: ★★

Zach Condon takes his stage name from the capital of Lebanon because Beirut is where cultures meet and was ‘known...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2023

Review of Mamá África

Mamá África

Julio Montoro y Alma Latina

Tumi Music

Rating: ★★★★

As one of Félix Baloy’s Cuban Son All Stars, Julio Montoro knows how to surround himself with class. On the...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2023

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