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Review of The Vessel

The Vessel

Jaime Ospina

Jaime Ospina

Rating: ★★★

Colombian composer and multi-instrumentalist Jaime Ospina indulges in Latin and African lounge grooves on his debut album, recorded in his...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: September/2025

Review of Transformation Time

Transformation Time

Bardo

Stones Throw Records

Rating: ★★★

Best-known until now as the lead vocalist for the LA band Chicano Batman, Bardo (whose full name is Bardo Martinez)...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2025

Review of Inspirar

Inspirar

Danças Ocultas | Danças Ocultas & Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras

Galileo Music

Rating: ★★★★

‘Inspirar’ means ‘to inspire’ in Portuguese – no surprise there, right? And the word takes the same double meaning as...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2025

Review of Meydan

Meydan

Meral Polat

Top of the World

W.E.R.F.

Rating: ★★★★★

Meral Polat is a Dutch singer of Turkish-Kurdish descent, devoted to exploring the space left by 70s Anatolian psychedelia and...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2025

Review of 40girls / Kita Koun Kan

40girls / Kita Koun Kan

Ya Tosiba / Sabou-Gnouman De Kita

Purplish Records

Rating: ★★★

Purplish Records like to release music as pairs or batches on cassette. Batch #6 consists of albums by Ya Tosiba...

Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: October/2025

Review of 2015–2025 Les Disques Bongo Joe: 10 Years Of Sonic Explorations

2015–2025 Les Disques Bongo Joe: 10 Years Of Sonic Explorations

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

Les Disques Bongo Joe

Rating: ★★★★

Les Disques Bongo Joe has grown out of its Geneva record store home, prolifically devoted to the clankily retro-electronic side...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2025

Review of Maame

Maame

Cheikh Lô

Top of the World

World Circuit Records

Rating: ★★★★

When this reviewer rather recklessly gave up a well-paid staff job as a political correspondent at The Times some 30...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2025

Review of Tribute to Juan Carlos Cáceres

Tribute to Juan Carlos Cáceres

Le Collectif Tango Negro Ensemble

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

Le Collectif Tango Negro Ensemble is a project led by the double-bassist Carlos Buschini, here playing acoustic bass, that recreates...

Reviewed by Gabriel Cócaro in issue: December/2025

Review of Regresso

Regresso

Alvorada

Museu do Fado

Rating: ★★★★★

The Alvorada trio, made up of António José Moreira and Ricardo Dias (Portuguese guitars) and Pedro Lopes (Spanish guitar) continue...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2025

Review of Soon In Your Village

Soon In Your Village

The Balkan Voodoo Orchestra

Asphalt Tango

Rating: ★★★★

The Balkan Voodoo Orchestra has unleashed this year’s primary global fusion spinner, with all disparate elements intact, shaven down to...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2025

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