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Review of Withershins

Withershins

Jamie Dickson

Jamie Dickson

Rating: ★★★★

Withershins is the debut solo album from Glastonbury-based guitarist Jamie Dickson. A homage to British folk guitar legends such as...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: July/2024

Review of Alessandro ‘Asso’ Stefana

Alessandro ‘Asso’ Stefana

Alessandro ‘Asso’ Stefana

Ipecac Records

Rating: ★★★★

Now here’s an intriguing album. Alessandro ‘Asso’ Stefana is an impressive experimental guitarist and multi-instrumentalist from Italy who has built...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2024

Review of Dove Voglio Stare

Dove Voglio Stare

Tartaglia Aneuro

Full Heads Records

Rating: ★★

A popular act in the Neapolitan live scene for the past 12 years, Tartaglia Aneuro gather around singer and frontman...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2024

Review of Café

Café

Café

Craft Latino

Rating: ★★★

Here’s another long-lost Latin/soul/rock rarity from the same era, but recorded for Fania’s Vaya imprint. Produced by Ray Barretto, it...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: September/2024

Review of Buzz’ Ayaz

Buzz’ Ayaz

Buzz’ Ayaz

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★

In Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, there are very real and longstanding physical and political divides between the Greek and...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2024

Review of Hadal Deluxe Edition

Hadal Deluxe Edition

Atlas Maior

Silver Phantom Publishing

Rating: ★★★

This deluxe edition collects Texas-based jazz quartet Atlas Maior’s recorded output from the past four years. It’s an album of...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: September/2024

Review of Trail of Flowers

Trail of Flowers

Sierra Ferrell

Rounder Records

Rating: ★★★

Sierra Ferrell kicks off her latest album with ‘American Dreaming’, ‘one of several songs co-written with… frequent collaborator Melody Walker...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2024

Review of Africatown, AL Ancestor Sounds

Africatown, AL Ancestor Sounds

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Freedirt

Rating: ★★★

After all Ian Brennan’s field recordings of mostly non-professional musicians and singers recorded around the world from Rwanda to Romania...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024

Review of Getaway

Getaway

Kolonel Djafaar

Batov Records

Rating: ★★★★

The simplest and most common description of Kolonel Djafaar’s sound is as a meeting of Ethio-jazz and Afrobeat. And that’s...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2024

Review of Music in Covid Times

Music in Covid Times

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Tehzeeb Foundation

Rating: ★★★★★

A treasure trove of North Indian classical and folk music, Music in Covid Times bagged all the most coveted categories...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: January/February/2024

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