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Review of Ni Hui – Voices of the Forest

Ni Hui – Voices of the Forest

Kayatibu

Da Lata Music

Rating: ★★★

There is a running joke in Brazil that the state of Acre doesn’t really exist, an idea based on its...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Review of Froggy’s Demise

Froggy’s Demise

EZRA

Adhyâropa Records

Rating: ★★★★

EZRA is what you get when a group of ridiculously talented musicians combine all of the different “grasses” – bluegrass,...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Review of Doing Things Right

Doing Things Right

Jim Kweskin & The Berlin Hall Saturday Night Revue

Jalopy Records

Rating: ★★★

Younger listeners may recall the name-check of Jim Kweskin by Bob Dylan in Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Review of RAIO

RAIO

Tagua Tagua

Wonderwheel Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Brazilian producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Felipe Puperi delivers sonic gold on his third album as Tagua Tagua. Released via Brooklyn’s...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Review of Wild and Clear and Blue

Wild and Clear and Blue

I’m With Her

Rounder Records

Rating: ★★★★

What started out in 2014 looking like a one-off or short-lived supergroup of Americana singer-songwriters – Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan...

Reviewed in issue June/2025

Review of Believer

Believer

Blue Cactus

Sleepy Cat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Three albums in and it feels like Blue Cactus, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, have finally found themselves. In truth,...

Reviewed in issue June/2025

Review of I Feel It Once Again

I Feel It Once Again

Anne Harris

Rugged Road

Rating: ★★★★

Chicago-based fiddle player and singer-songwriter Anne Harris boasts a CV diverse enough to not only include many years touring and...

Reviewed in issue June/2025

Review of Atlântico Negro

Atlântico Negro

Ilessi

Rocinante

Rating: ★★★★

The title is a translation of The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy’s celebrated book which examines the continuities in Black diasporic...

Reviewed in issue June/2025

Review of Cancionera

Cancionera

Natalia Lafourcade

Top of the World

Sony Music

Rating: ★★★★★

We know Natalia Lafourcade can turn on the intimacy and intensity. On 2024’s Live at Carnegie Hall, she managed to...

Reviewed in issue June/2025

Review of Nyron Higor

Nyron Higor

Nyron Higor

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Higor’s first album, Fio de Lâmina, which came out at the end of 2022, was a warm, immersive, instrumental bath...

Reviewed in issue June/2025

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