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Review of Anamores

Anamores

Ani Cordero

Panapén Records

Rating: ★★★

Earlier in the year, this Puerto Rican singer, drummer and social activist released a righteously indignant single about, she explained,...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Review of Sara Mama

Sara Mama

Humazapas

Top of the World

AYA Records

Rating: ★★★★

A project long in the making, Sara Mama, which translates as ‘mother corn,’ has its roots in the Kichwa communities...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Review of La Retreta Mayor

La Retreta Mayor

La Retreta Mayor

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★

Originally released in 1976 on Discomoda, this Venezuelan ten-piece founded by guitarist Alex Rodríguez transports you straight back to a...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Review of Samba em Kigali

Samba em Kigali

Tapioca

Jakarta Records

Rating: ★★

Following 2022's well-streamed Voyage, the Belgian duo of rapper and lyricist Alessandro ‘Le Tagarel’ Vlerick and producer and composer Simon...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Review of Guilherme Coutinho e o Grupo Stalo

Guilherme Coutinho e o Grupo Stalo

Guilherme Coutinho e o Grupo Stalo

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded 45 years ago in the north Brazilian town of Belém and released on the Erla - Estudio Rauland label,...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Review of The Ones Ahead

The Ones Ahead

Beverly Glenn-Copeland

Transgressive

Rating: ★★★

As he entered his seventies, the classically-trained Canada-based singer/composer Glenn-Copeland was lapsing into dignified retirement. Then he made public his...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Review of City of Gold

City of Gold

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

With City of Gold, Molly Tuttle and producer/dobro guitar maestro Jerry Douglas have accomplished their self-appointed mission, which was to...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Review of The Wolf and the Lamb: Live at the Shakh

The Wolf and the Lamb: Live at the Shakh

Yale Strom & Pstromi

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Recorded live in the Shakh Synagogue in Holešov, Czech Republic, The Wolf and the Lamb is a klezmer album that...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Review of Grass Roots

Grass Roots

Leftover Salmon

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★

What do you get when you mix together musicians from Left Hand String Band and The Salmon Heads? Leftover Salmon,...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2023

Review of Anarchist Gospel

Anarchist Gospel

Sunny War

Top of the World

New West Records

Rating: ★★★★

The title of Sunny War's fourth album, Anarchist Gospel, gets to the bones of the singer-songwriter's guerilla art. Until recently,...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

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