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Review of Trapdoor to Hell

Trapdoor to Hell

Arthur Coates

Arthur Coates

Rating: ★★★

Prodigious young multi-instrumentalist Arthur Coates grew up in Insch in Aberdeenshire listening to his parent's favourite folk music from their...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Window to the World

Window to the World

Clarice Assad

Vectordisc Records

Rating: ★★★★

If anyone should record this ‘Tribute to Milton Nascimento’, then maybe it's this Grammy-nominated singer-pianist. ‘I was born into the...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of La Estrella

La Estrella

Chancha Vía Circuito

Wonderwheel Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Argentina's Chancha Vía Circuito transitioned from being a pioneer of digital cumbia in all its raw, urban, bone-shaking glory to...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Mamarron Vol 1

Mamarron Vol 1

Los Cotopla Boyz

AYA Records

Rating: ★★★

Mamarron Vol 1 aims to present a modern day representation of the Colombian tropical music scene, playfully dubbed ‘millennial cumbia’....

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of YTILAER

YTILAER

Bill Callahan

Drag City

Rating: ★★★★

Bill Callahan's Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest saw his writing point its focus inwards and take on the enormity of...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition

Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard

Top of the World

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

In 1965, Who's That Knocking? by Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard demolished forever a de facto gender barrier within the...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Pelerinaj

Pelerinaj

Erol Josué

Top of the World

Geomuse Editions

Rating: ★★★★★

Vodou priest, actor, singer and choreographer Erol Josué spent two decades living in Paris and New York before returning home...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Ritual

Ritual

Roberto López

Curura Musique

Rating: ★★★

Right in the middle of the rock-jazz-Latin Venn diagram there's a sweet spot reserved for Santana. Many have tried to...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Nacarile

Nacarile

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Sony Music Latin

Rating: ★★★

‘I was confused and lost, but at the same time, songs kept coming out of me. I kept writing,’ says...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Wonderland

Wonderland

Martha Spencer

Martha Spencer

Rating: ★★★★

The first thing that hits you is the voice. Bright, clear, high-pitched, as sharply faceted as polished amethyst, tinged with...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

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