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Review of Same Self, Same Silence

Same Self, Same Silence

Hossein Alizadeh & Rembrandt Frerichs Trio

Top of the World

Just Listen Records

Rating: ★★★★★

‘Same, same, but different,’ as they like to say in Thailand. The Rembrandt Frerichs Trio released a magnificent album with...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2021

Review of Aboriginal Soul

Aboriginal Soul

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Nascente NSCD120

Rating: ★★★★

Compiled by UK-based Aussie music j ournalist Jane Cornwell, Aboriginal Soul is an excellent selec tion of fairly recent tracks...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2010

Review of Dancylvania

Dancylvania

The Baghdaddies

The Baghdaddies BAGHCD04

Rating: ★★

The Baghdaddies are nothing if not eclectic. This Geordie five-piece with Mesopotamian overtones and a Balkan brass bedrock have weaved...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2010

Review of The Darkness Between the Leaves

The Darkness Between the Leaves

Alba Griot Ensemble

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★★

From the rain-soaked Scottish glens to the hot and dusty deserts of Mali, the Alba Griot Ensemble have discovered an...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2018

Review of Y Su Descarga Internacional

Y Su Descarga Internacional

Bosq

Bacalao Records

Rating: ★★★

US producer Bosq has been making tropical bass since the early 2010s, regularly working with musicians from Africa and the...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/2021

Review of Hi-Life Jazz

Hi-Life Jazz

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley

Agogo Records

Rating: ★★★★

Hi-Life Jazz is a super-cool and joyously good natured new release from the Ghanaian veteran. This is his 35th album...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2022

Review of Mistune: Violin & Tanpura

Mistune: Violin & Tanpura

Chris Prosser

Rongotai Records

Rating: ★★★

In Mistune Chris Prosser continues to explore his fascination with alternate tunings on the violin, this time paired with a...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2019

Review of Interconnectedness

Interconnectedness

Carmen Souza

Galileo MC

Rating: ★★★★

When Carmen Souza first began playing and recording with her faithful partner, the bassist and producer Theo Pas’cal, their music...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2023

Review of Renascence

Renascence

Kandia Kouyaté

Top of the World

Sterns

Rating: ★★★★

Given her status as the queen of the Mande griots, it comes as a shock to realise that this is...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of Visangati

Visangati

Utsav Lal

Utsav Lal

Rating: ★★★

Visangati, the name of this album, apparently means ‘Anomaly’ in Sanskrit and Hindi – in other words a deviation from...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2021

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