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Review of Right of Passage

Right of Passage

Touki

Captain Pouch Records

Rating: ★★★

Franco-American guitar and banjo player Cory Seznec and Senegalese guitarist-turned-kora player Amadou Diagne first met while busking on the streets...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Liga Latina

Liga Latina

Liga Latina

Multination

Rating: ★★★★

Liga Latina have been described as ‘a European supergroup.’ Well, they're a quintet of Scandinavian musicians steeped in Latin and...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Grown

Grown

Waaju

Olindo Records

Rating: ★★★★

Waaju are an innovative Afro-Latin quintet, led by drummer Ben Brown, who regularly performs with Newham's Alfa Mist. This project,...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of The Gap

The Gap

India Electric Co

Shoelay Music

Rating: ★★★★

It's been five long years since India Electric Co released their debut, The Girl I Left Behind Me. In that...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Sins We Made

Sins We Made

Harrow Fair

Roaring Girl Records

Rating: ★★★★

The second outing from Canadian duo Harrow Fair – Miranda Mulholland (from Great Lake Swimmers) and Andrew Penner (musician and...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of River Sisters

River Sisters

Sutari

AAUU Records

Rating: ★★★

The female trio Sutari have a distinctive place in the Polish musical landscape. Kasia Kapela, Basia Songin and Zosia Zembrzuska...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Maslak Halay1

Maslak Halay1

Ayyuka

Tantana Records

Rating: ★★★★

The whole sound of Ayyuka is summed up in the title of their fifth album; halay, aficionados of Turkish and...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Acoustic

Acoustic

Oumou Sangaré

Nø Førmat!

Rating: ★★★★

Oumou Sangaré's label have certainly got some mileage out of her brilliant 2017 album, Mogoya. It was followed a year...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Shadows on the Moon

Shadows on the Moon

Midnight Skyracer

Island Records

Rating: ★★★★

O sister, where art thou? Not necessarily anywhere near the Appalachians, it seems. Midnight Skyracer's 2018 debut Fire proved that...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of As Catedrais Silenciadas

As Catedrais Silenciadas

Xabier Díaz & Adufeiras de Salitre

Top of the World

Músicas de Salitre

Rating: ★★★★

‘Illas de Sal’, the final track of As Catedrais Silenciadas, was built around one of the countless field recordings that...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

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