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Review of Cavejaz

Cavejaz

Fabiano Do Nascimento | Fabiano do Nascimento

Leaving Records

Rating: ★★★

Nascimento is a Brazilian-American guitarist, who performs on a range of multi-string, variously tuned, nylon string guitars. Cavejaz is split...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: February/March/2026

Review of Further From the Country

Further From the Country

William Prince

Top of the World

Six Shooter Records

Rating: ★★★★

With a deep, slightly burred voice and deadpan delivery, Canadian First Nations singer-songwriter William Prince has always grounded his art...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: February/March/2026

Review of Poravna

Poravna

Vesna Pisarović

PDV Records

Rating: ★★★★

In the English speaking world Vesna Pisarović might not be an household name, but in the post-Yugoslavian pop music scene...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: February/March/2026

Review of Powder Keg

Powder Keg

Clémentine March

PRAH Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

It would be hard to accuse French-British singer Clémentine March’s music of lacking in character. Sung in a mixture of...

Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: February/March/2026

Review of If This Life Could Start Again

If This Life Could Start Again

Malena Zavala

Paraná Records

Rating: ★★★★

Born in Argentina and raised in London, Malena Zavala earned critical plaudits for the DIY bedroom pop of her 2018...

Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: February/March/2026

Review of Spove

Spove

Spove

Spove

Rating: ★★★★

The Eurasian curlew (spove in Norwegian) migrates between Norway and Syria, bequeathing a perfect name for this Norwegian/Syrian group’s debut...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: February/March/2026

Review of Soul Ecstasy

Soul Ecstasy

Chandrika Tandon

Soul Chants Music

Rating: ★★★

Grammy Award winner Chandrika Tandon’s new album – glowingly titled Soul Ecstasy – provides exactly as promised. Describing herself as...

Reviewed by James Rorison in issue: January/2026

Review of Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Aïta Productions

Rating: ★★★★

The musicians of Brittany and Ireland have long held each other in high musical esteem and nowhere is this admiration...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2017

Review of Yobadi

Yobadi

Karim Ziad & Hamid El Kasri

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★

How can you justify subjecting the raw power of traditional Moroccan Gnawa music to a pernickety, pimple-picking, over-intellectualised version of...

Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Etike

Etike

Jeannot & Kelly

Prosmart

Rating: ★★★

Jeannot Bel is a UK-based Congolese guitarist who is a regular member of Kanda Bongo Man’s touring band. He recently...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

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