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Review of Kystnært

Kystnært

Guro Kvifte Nesheim & Floating Sofa Quartet

Taragot

Rating: ★★★★

Kystnært has been on permanent play since its arrival. This instrumental journey celebrates the musical heritage and diversity of the...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Review of Dotze Temps

Dotze Temps

Lluís Gómez

Segell Microscopi

Rating: ★★★

Lluís Gómez’ story is an improbable one. A voracious Spanish musical student from a young age, he quickly learned to...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Review of Vander Ikh Mir Lustik

Vander Ikh Mir Lustik

Dobranotch

CPL-Music

Rating: ★★★★

Lively melodies and joyful group vocals characterise this new release from the previously Saint Petersburg-based band Dobranotch. In the wake...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Review of Sarda Sarda

Sarda Sarda

Or Kantor

Anova Music

Rating: ★★★

This debut album was born of a serendipitous encounter in a tattoo studio between a record label’s talent scout and...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Review of Clay

Clay

Flo Perlin

Flo Perlin

Rating: ★★★★

Flo Perlin is a London-based singer-songwriter with Iraqi/Belarusian roots, a lovely resonant voice and a knack for writing hook-laden songs...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Review of Buzz’ Ayaz

Buzz’ Ayaz

Buzz’ Ayaz

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★

In Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, there are very real and longstanding physical and political divides between the Greek and...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Review of SOLÓWA

SOLÓWA

Jolanta Kossakowska

CM Records

Rating: ★★★★

The title translates as ‘solo’, as well as being a word describing children squabbling after school, while the cover shows...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Review of Inkerin Laulu

Inkerin Laulu

Maco Oey

Eclipse Music

Rating: ★★★

Oey was born in Germany to an Indonesian-Chinese father and a Finnish mother from Ingria, now part of Russia. His...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Review of Una Ronda Més

Una Ronda Més

Fenya Rai

Segell Microscopi

Rating: ★★

Una Ronda Més (One More Round) is the third album from Fenya Rai who hail from Valls, south-west of Barcelona....

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Review of Cool Head

Cool Head

Georgia Ruth

Bubblewrap Collective

Rating: ★★★★

Wales’ Georgia Ruth wooed all with her voice and harp playing on 2013’s In the Pines, which saw her nominated...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

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