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Review of Domino!

Domino!

La Bottine Souriante

Top of the World

Studio B-12

Rating: ★★★★★

The luminous joy of the dance on the album cover — set at the landmark Van Horne viaduct in Montréal...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: April/2024

Review of Rincon de las Penas

Rincon de las Penas

Gustavo Pazos Conde

saphrane

Rating: ★★★

The Río de la Plata has a long tradition of meditative guitar music. It’s informed by the mestizo traditions of...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2024

Review of Vision of Three

Vision of Three

Northern Resonance

Trad Records

Rating: ★★★★

In 2017 Swedish viola d’amore player Anna Ekborg Hans-Ers started to realise her dream of establishing a string trio grounded...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2024

Review of Ciel: Tales from the Box

Ciel: Tales from the Box

Thanos Stavridis & Stella Tempreli

Artway Productions

Rating: ★★★

Tales from the Box is a collaboration between accordionist Thanos Stavridis and cellist Stella Tempreli. This debut from the duo...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2024

Review of Aguidavi do Jêje

Aguidavi do Jêje

Aguidavi do Jêje

Top of the World

Rocinante

Rating: ★★★★

Slaves from present-day Nigeria, Benin and Togo brought Candomblé to Bahia (Brazil) where it thrived, developing into Afro-Brazilian ceremonies performed...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: May/2024

Review of All My Friends

All My Friends

Aoife O’Donovan

Top of the World

Yep Roc Records

Rating: ★★★★

A little more than a century after the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution secured American women the right to...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2024

Review of Süeda Sings Sezen Aksu

Süeda Sings Sezen Aksu

Süeda Çatakoğlu

Ahenk Müzik

Rating: ★★★★

Sezen Aksu: an unconventional contemporary female public figure in Turkey, for half a century she commented with her songs on...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2024

Review of Extinct But Still Alive

Extinct But Still Alive

Mama Longhorn

Top of the World

Soit Se Silti

Rating: ★★★★★

This is Finnish music collective Mama Longhorn’s fourth album in a 13-year career which has seen them acclaimed as among...

Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: May/2024

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 Never Too Late: Duets with My Friends

Never Too Late: Duets with My Friends

Jim Kweskin

StorySound Records

Rating: ★★★

In 1960s America, you couldn’t enter a coffee house without running into a malcontent folk singer with a ratty guitar...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2024

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