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Review of Soprem Bons Ventos

Soprem Bons Ventos

Pedro Ricardo

Soundway Records

Rating: ★★★

Pedro Ricardo, Portuguese multi-instrumentalist, DJ and producer, explains that his debut album represents “an ode to the past, to those...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

Review of Abri Cyclonique

Abri Cyclonique

Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★

For the last five decades, Polobi, from Guadeloupe has been drumming and singing gwo ka music in the Caribbean island's...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

Review of On a Good Day

On a Good Day

Polk Trio

Nevez Production

Rating: ★★

After a seven-year hiatus, Belgian flute player Yves Barbieux returns as part of Polk Trio, bringing together his flute and...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

Review of Medicine

Medicine

Orchestra Gold

Orchestra Gold

Rating: ★★★

To get the full therapeutic benefit of Orchestra Gold's Medicine; it's best to play it loud. That way you experience...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

Review of Pasado en Claro

Pasado en Claro

Anders Jormin

ECM

Rating: ★★

This album is credited to double bass player Anders Jormin, and indeed seven of the 11 compositions are his. Yet...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

Review of Face to Face

Face to Face

Vusi Mahlasela, Norman Zulu & Jive Connection

Strut Records

Rating: ★★★★

The velvet-voiced Sotho folk singer Vusi Mahlasela met the Swedish jazz/soul collective Jive Connection in the early 1990s in an...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

Review of Ez Kî Me

Ez Kî Me

Meral Polat Trio

Meral Polat Trio

Rating: ★★★★

Even though this is actress and singer Meral Polat's homage to her Kurdish roots, the music on her debut album,...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

Review of Li Pedi

Li Pedi

Nisia Trio

homerecords.be

Rating: ★★★

Nisia Trio's Li Pedi is an album for the ears as well as for the feet. Dancing their way from...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

Review of Try Paradise

Try Paradise

Try Paradise

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★

It's hard to tell who or what the wellspring of this album is, and, I might be wrong, but on...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

Review of Where You Wish You Were

Where You Wish You Were

Bill Laurance & Michael League

ACT Music

Rating: ★★★★

Michael League and Bill Laurance are leading figures of the massively popular collective Snarky Puppy, who snag everything from jazz,...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

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