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Review of Mundo Solo

Mundo Solo

Fabiano Do Nascimento

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★★

I have been an admirer of the prolific Brazilian guitarist and composer Fabiano Do Nascimento for several years. Based in...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: March/2024

Review of Microfolk 1-3

Microfolk 1-3

Chaz Knapp, Cy Werner & Chaz Prymek

Scissor Tail Editions

Rating: ★★★★★

The deeply impressionistic, pointillist improvisations spread across these three wonderful collaborative cassette releases are like subtle adornments to the natural...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: December/2023

Review of Digital Indigenous 07: Why Not

Digital Indigenous 07: Why Not

Twiggy

1000Hz Records

Rating: ★★

This is the seventh instalment in the 1000HZ series which spotlights local producers –predominantly from Malawi – working with rudimentary...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: September/2024

Review of Dotze Temps

Dotze Temps

Lluís Gómez

Segell Microscopi

Rating: ★★★

Lluís Gómez’ story is an improbable one. A voracious Spanish musical student from a young age, he quickly learned to...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: September/2024

Review of Quintela

Quintela

Carme López

Warm Winters Ltd

Rating: ★★★

Carme López plays the Galician gaita (bagpipes), but for this debut album she’s dedicated to what sounds like the deep...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2024

Review of Gordan

Gordan

Gordan

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

The members of Gordan are Serbian singer Svetlana Spajić, Austrian percussionist Andi Stecher and German bassist and electronics specialist Guido...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2024

Review of Cañonazo

Cañonazo

Johnny Pacheco

Craft Recordings Latino

Rating: ★★★

Pacheco was a co-founder of the legendary Fania Records, and this was the label's first release, as rather than work...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: November/2024

Review of Femmina

Femmina

Gera Bertolone

Sonora Recordings

Rating: ★★

The vocalist and clarinettist Gera Bertolone hails from Sicily, and here puts together an album of original songs which blend...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: January/2025

Review of A Terrible Beauty

A Terrible Beauty

Christy Moore

Claddagh Records

Rating: ★★★★★

More than half a century after his debut LP, Christy Moore’s first outing on Claddagh Records shows there’s still mileage...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: January/2025

Review of DJAM!

DJAM!

DJAM!

Top of the World

Guitar Globetrotter Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

The two musicians who make up DJAM! have both featured separately in recent issues of Songlines. The Dutch guitarist Joep...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/2025

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