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Review of Where the Gods are in Peace

Where the Gods are in Peace

Antibalas

Daptone Records

Rating: ★★★★

Brooklyn's Antibalas have been releasing Afrobeat records for nearly two decades and their latest effort is an exemplary demonstration of...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: November/2017

Review of Circadian

Circadian

Manu Delago

Top of the World

One Little Indian

Rating: ★★★★

Last year's Parasol Peak release (a Top of the World review in #143) was a milestone in Manu Delago's career....

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: November/2019

Review of Reggae Dancer

Reggae Dancer

Eastern Arrernte Band

CAAMA Music

Rating: ★★★

There’s a long and proud tradition of Australian Aboriginal rock-reggae groups, from both remote desert regions and urban cities, that...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2022

Review of North Star Calling

North Star Calling

Leela Gilday

Top of the World

Diva Sound Records

Rating: ★★★★★

When listening to Leela Gilday's latest album, North Star Calling, one is instantly transported to a vast land of powerful...

Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: May/2020

Review of The Art of the Daegeum Sanjo

The Art of the Daegeum Sanjo

Ahn Sung-Woo

Inédit

Rating: ★★

The latest of Inédit's series of Korean sanjo releases is for daegeum, a horizontal bamboo flute with a resonator and...

Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Laisvė Šaukia

Laisvė Šaukia

Saulius Petreikis

Saulės Muzika

Rating: ★★★

This latest 14-track, live recording from prolific Lithuanian multi-instrumentalist Saulius Petreikis and his guitarist brother Donatas Petreikis, came out in...

Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: October/2021

Review of Mycelium

Mycelium

Jacky Molard Quartet

Innacor

Rating: ★★★

Mycelium is (apparently) the vegetative part of a fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike filaments. The threadlike filaments...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: May/2019

Review of Fa

Fa

Susana Seivane

Nakra

Rating: ★★★★

Images of Galician piper Susana Seivane's son, born during an eight-year absence from the studio, litter the thick little booklet...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2019

Review of The Greatest Day

The Greatest Day

Jake Shimabukuro

JS Records

Rating: ★★

There's never been any doubt that Jake Shimabukuro is a remarkable ukulele player. From his early success in Hawaii with...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2019

Review of Peru Bravo

Peru Bravo

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Tiger''s Milk

Rating: ★★★★

This latest offering of 60s and 70s Peruvian psychedelia showcases the work of a handful of bands who stylishly combined...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

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