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Review of Since Time is Gravity

Since Time is Gravity

Natural Information Society

Eremite

Rating: ★★★

The American composer and multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams has long described his experimental Natural Information Society ensemble as an exercise in...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Sonido Lava

Sonido Lava

Daniel Haaksman

Man Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Adding a Berlin sheen to Latin America's electric rhythms, DJ-producer Daniel Haaksman returns with his fourth full-length release, Sonido Lava....

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Davorio

Davorio

Samuele Strufaldi

Musica Macondo

Rating: ★★★★

In 2019 the Italian composer and jazz musician Samuele Strufaldi was invited by djembé player Boris Pierrou to visit his...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of As We Speak

As We Speak

Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer & Rakesh Chaurasia

Top of the World

Thirty Tigers

Rating: ★★★★★

The last time Songlines interviewed Béla Fleck, he had briefly set aside his global adventures to return to the music...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Come Back To Me

Come Back To Me

Peter One

Verve Records

Rating: ★★★

Originally from the Ivory Coast Peter One emigrated to the US to escape Civil War. Prior to this, he released...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of ASAP Inşallah

ASAP Inşallah

Ya Tosiba

Huge Bass

Rating: ★★★

For the past dozen years, the electronic music duo Zuzu Zakaria & Tatu Metsätähti have intrigued with their raw blend...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Kapelya

Kapelya

Raza

Rising Song Records

Rating: ★★★★

From its opening shruti box and solo voice, Chana Raskin's Raza's debut album project Kapelya carries much anticipation. A vocal...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of El Sonido de Fingier Records

El Sonido de Fingier Records

Kevin Fingier & The Kevin Fingier Collective

Fingier Records

Rating: ★★

Any track entitled ‘Latin Dynamite’ suggests to this jaundiced mind one of those tawdry cover albums of chart hits found...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Traversées

Traversées

Samaïa

Top of the World

Samaïa

Rating: ★★★★★

The Samaïa trio consists of vocalists Eléonore Fourniau, Noémie Nael and Luna Silva, who weave together musical influences from Anatolia,...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Taraf Syriana

Taraf Syriana

Taraf Syriana

Lula World

Rating: ★★★

The four-piece Taraf Syriana is made up of virtuoso musicians from Syria, Lebanon, Moldova and Switzerland, now based in Montréal....

Reviewed in issue May/2023

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