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Review of Palabras Urgentes

Palabras Urgentes

Susana Baca

Top of the World

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★★★

At 77 years old, Baca has never sounded better; her voice has lost none of its dynamism and the careful...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: November/2021

Review of Esa Flor

Esa Flor

Adan Pedroso

Astar AARCDA005

Rating: ★★★★

A few years ago, Adan Pedroso and Asere, the group he founded, created the beautiful ‘Romántica’, a love song that...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: March/2010

Review of Noongar Wonderland

Noongar Wonderland

Maatakitj (feat Paul Mac)

Maatakitj

Rating: ★★★★

Maatakitj (pronounced ‘mart-a-key-tch’ and translated as ‘long legs like a spear’) is the nickname of West Australian musician Clint Bracknell,...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2022

Review of Shake the Chains

Shake the Chains

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Quercus Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Shake the Chains protest-song project (featured in #125) was conceived by English folk singer Greg Russell after his university...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2017

Review of El Valle de la Infancia

El Valle de la Infancia

Dino Saluzzi Group

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

A son, a brother and a nephew join Argentinian bandoneón (squeezebox) virtuoso Dino Saluzzi for this latest offering from the...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Saturday Morning in Boston

Saturday Morning in Boston

Derek Gripper & Mike Block

New Cape Records

Rating: ★★★

The fluidity, sonic beauty and musical interplay exhibited on this record leaves little to suggest that this album was recorded...

Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: March/2021

Review of Black Atlantica Edits

Black Atlantica Edits

Daniel Haaksman

BBE Music

Rating: ★★★

Daniel Haaksman sees himself as somewhat of an auteur when it comes to music from across the globe. The Berlin-based...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2020

Review of Retribution

Retribution

Tanya Tagaq

Top of the World

Six Shooter Records

Rating: ★★★★

Tanya Tagaq's music somehow manages to feel completely out of this world, and at the same time deeply plugged into...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of I Vine Speil (In the Mirror of Wine)

I Vine Speil (In the Mirror of Wine)

Mahsa Vahdat & Skruk

Kirkelig Kulturversted

Rating: ★★

Mahsa Vahdat is one of the most courageous and enterprising of contemporary Iranian singers. Courageous bec ause despite restrictions on...

Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2011

Review of Tropical Forest Project: Ecuador

Tropical Forest Project: Ecuador

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ginkgo Music

Rating: ★★★

At first glance, the list of artists for this compilation appear too disparate to result in anything coherent: there’s Dobet...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/2021

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