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Review of Ray and His Court

Ray and His Court

Ray and His Court

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★

The Ray in question is organist Ray Fernandez, and his Miami-based Court include his wife and two sons, along with...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Review of Salt River

Salt River

Sam Amidon

Top of the World

River Lea Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

Recorded by Sam Amidon (guitar, fiddle), Sam Gendel (saxophone, synthesizer) and Philippe Melanson (percussion) in Gendel’s Los Angeles home studio,...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Review of Suenan Las Trompetas

Suenan Las Trompetas

Ricardo Jacob

Bongonaut Records

Rating: ★★★

Self-described ‘artist, musician, writer, explorer of himself and transcendence,’ Ricardo Jacob is a producer, composer and veteran of the progressive...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Review of Sensible or Otherwise

Sensible or Otherwise

Charlotte Carrivick

Charlotte Carrivick

Rating: ★★★

Widely regarded as one of the UK’s finest flatpicking guitarists, Charlotte Carrivick offers up a dozen tasty instrumental tracks on...

Reviewed in issue February/March/2025

Review of Guepa Je!

Guepa Je!

Edmundo Arias

Radio Martiko

Rating: ★★★★★

Radio Martiko’s compilation of Lucho Bermúdez’ cumbia from the 50s and 60s was a highlight of 2022. This latest illuminates...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of Faz Tempo

Faz Tempo

Alvorada

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

When I first arrived in Brazil, one of my first experiences with live music was a roda de choro in...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of Made It All Up

Made It All Up

Sociograss

Sociograss

Rating: ★★★

Sociograss formed in 2018 when guitarist and singer Tim Leslie of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, visited Edinburgh, Scotland, for the first time....

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of Sotak

Sotak

Karla Da Silva

Top of the World

Sotak Musik

Rating: ★★★★

Now living in Lisbon and playing much of her music in Portugal and France, Karla Da Silva was born in...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of Super Disco Pirata

Super Disco Pirata

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

Analog Africa

Rating: ★★★★

Twenty-three sometimes bizarre, but often glorious cuts of mainly Colombian cumbia, assembled from pirated bootleg records, from the period 1965-80,...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of In the Real World

In the Real World

Eric Bibb

Stony Plain Records

Rating: ★★★★

Son of singer, actor and civil rights activist Leon Bibb, Eric Bibb carries forward his father’s legacy in all the...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

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