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Review of Delight

Delight

Arushi Jain

Top of the World

Leaving Records

Rating: ★★★★★

With 2021’s Under the Lilac Sky, Arushi Jain announced herself as a gifted alchemist of electronica and Hindustani music through...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2024

Review of Digital Indigenous 05: Katula

Digital Indigenous 05: Katula

Katawa Singers

1000 HZ

Rating: ★★★★

Hailing from northern Malawi, this gospel choir began their recording career by accident when they began collecting money to build...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2024

Review of Sin Fronteras

Sin Fronteras

Mireya Ramos & The Poor Choices

One RPM

Rating: ★★★★

Two-time Latin Grammy award-winner Mireya Ramos has released her second album, Sin Fronteras, co-produced with Beau Bledsoe, founder/director of chamber...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: January/February/2024

Review of Autopoiética

Autopoiética

Mon Laferte

Universal Music

Rating: ★★★★

Chilean singer-songwriter Mon Laferte believes her latest work is also her best. The title refers to an entity’s capability to...

Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: January/February/2024

Review of Médikamen

Médikamen

Corey Ledet Zydeo

Top of the World

Arnaudville/Nouveau Electric

Rating: ★★★★★

Now 15 albums deep, the music of Texas-born, Louisiana-living zydeco busker Corey Ledet remains as vital as ever. However, this...

Reviewed by Andrew Daly in issue: January/February/2024

Review of Sahel

Sahel

Bombino

Partisan

Rating: ★★★★

The world is much changed since Omara ‘Bombino’ Moctar’s last album, 2018’s Grammy-nominated Deran. We’ve had pandemics, war, fire, flood...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2023

Review of Au Coeur de l’Aube

Au Coeur de l’Aube

Genticorum

Genticorum

Rating: ★★★

The Québécois trio of fiddler Pascal Gemme, guitarist Yann Falquet and relative newcomer flautist/accordion player Nicholas Willams deliver their eleventh...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2023

Review of Vidrio

Vidrio

Titanic

Unheard of Hope

Rating: ★★★★

If the notion of Mexican jazz is fairly obscure to Western ears, it’s not until ‘Hotel Elizabeth’, the final track...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2023

Review of Metgharabiin (Outsiders)

Metgharabiin (Outsiders)

Ramy Essam

Rev House Productions

Rating: ★★★★

Ramy Essam is known for his appearances on Cairo’s Tahrir Square during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, regularly in front of...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: November/2023

Review of Usvyaty: Russian Music from Pskov Region in Modern and Archival Recordings

Usvyaty: Russian Music from Pskov Region in Modern and Archival Recordings

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Antonovka Records

Rating: ★★

This is a curiosity. We get relatively few recordings from Russia and as the title says, these are field recordings...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2023

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