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Review of The São Paulo Tapes

The São Paulo Tapes

Mônica Vasconcelos

MOVAS

Rating: ★★★★

On reading that Robert Wyatt came out of retirement to produce Vasconcelos' eighth album (having previously worked with her on...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Review of Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes

Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes

Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes

Community Music

Rating: ★★★

Traditional themes of family, community and social justice dominate the debut album by Sam Gleaves and Tyler Hughes, two young...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Review of Across the Amerikee: Showpieces from Coal Camp to Cattle Trail

Across the Amerikee: Showpieces from Coal Camp to Cattle Trail

Stephen Wade

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

With a banjo, guitar, quietly affecting alto voice and an encyclopedic knowledge of American folk songs, Stephen Wade creates a...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Review of Loé Loá: Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree

Loé Loá: Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree

Betsayda Machado & Parranda El Clavo

Odelia

Rating: ★★★★★

It's hard to think of any field recording – this was captured under a mango tree, as the title suggests...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Review of Entreverados

Entreverados

Burgos Buschini Dúo

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

Gato, zamba, chacarera, milonga: these musics were the seedbed from which tango sprung and have since become an ongoing rural...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Review of The Rough Guide to Holy Blues

The Rough Guide to Holy Blues

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

Featuring 25 tracks of vintage acoustic blues – almost all of them dating from the 1920s and 30s – this...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Review of End of the World Remixes

End of the World Remixes

Elza Soares

Mais Um Discos

Rating: ★★★

Remix albums are notoriously a mixed bag and this one's no different, with a handful of Portuguese and Brazilian remixers,...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Review of Burning Inspiration

Burning Inspiration

Royal Sounds

Sugar Shack Records

Rating: ★★★

British roots reggae has become a dedicated fixation for Bristol-based Sugar Shack Records. Along with their two sister labels, they...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Review of Core [Coração]

Core [Coração]

Maria Pia de Vito

Jando Music

Rating: ★★★

There is such an alluring charm to the words Chico Buarque pens for his own songs that it is almost...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

Review of Revolutionary Minds

Revolutionary Minds

Benjamin Zephaniah

Fane Phonics

Rating: ★★★

Zephaniah may be best known as a poet but, over the years, he's made occasional albums marrying dub and reggae...

Reviewed in issue December/2017

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