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Review of A DOS

A DOS

Lau Noah

Lau Noah

Rating: ★★★

The joyously uncategorisable Catalan singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Lau Noah criss-crossed Europe and the US for more than a year...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of El Terreno

El Terreno

Jacob Gurevitsch

Music for Dreams

Rating: ★★

Jacob Gurevitsch makes sure to stress he is not a flamenco musician – in spite of often being presented as...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Yoshitsune

Yoshitsune

PoiL Ueda

Dur et Doux

Rating: ★★★★

Yoshitsune is a concept album that hits like a comic book punch. The psychedelic hard-rock of French group PoiL proves...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Liminal Silence

Liminal Silence

Sunny Kim, Vardan Ovsepian & Ben Monder

Earshift Music

Rating: ★★★

Now here’s an album that defies easy categorisation, in which Sunny Kim, a Korean-born singer, improviser and composer joins forces...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Deep of Time

Deep of Time

Cory Seznec

Captain Pouch Records

Rating: ★★★

Cory Seznec’s fourth album, Deep of Time, conceived and produced during the COVID-19 lockdown, presents a contemplative, metaphysical, ethereal side...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Early Life Forms

Early Life Forms

Vitja Pauwels

W.E.R.F. Records

Rating: ★★★★

This feast for axe freaks captures the live debut of a new supergroup assembled by Brussels-based multi-instrumentalist and sound sculptor...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Acoustic Live

Acoustic Live

Kultur Shock

Old Age Recording Co

Rating: ★★★★

A mainstay of Seattle’s indie scene in the early 2000s, Balkan punk rockers Kultur Shock are back with a surprising...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Mount Matsu

Mount Matsu

Yīn Yīn | YĪN YĪN

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Dutch group YĪN YĪN’s third album is a joyous concoction of surf guitar, retro synth and East Asian influence. The...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Dancing with Love

Dancing with Love

Afarin Mansouri

Centrediscs

Rating: ★★★

Mezzo soprano Afarin Mansouri left Iran for Ontario in 2003 after growing up in the post-revolutionary environment that allowed her...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of The Musical Threads of the Silk Roads

The Musical Threads of the Silk Roads

Ibantuta

homerecords.be

Rating: ★★★★

Hailing from the Basque country and sharing a name with the great 14th-century explorer who travelled from North Africa all...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

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