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Review of The Great Jamaican Songbook, Vol 1

The Great Jamaican Songbook, Vol 1

Cleveland Watkiss

Cdubya Music/CDUB 1

Rating: ★★

Cleveland Watkiss is known both as a gifted jazz vocalist and a founding member of Metalheadz – the drum’n’bass outfit...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Esquina de São Paulo

Esquina de São Paulo

Danilo Brito & João Luiz

Zoho Music

Rating: ★★★★

Latin Grammy-nominated classical guitarist João Luiz and composer and mandolin player Danilo Brito have shared a friendship for nearly 20...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Where to Now?

Where to Now?

Track Dogs

Mondegreen Records

Rating: ★★

Track Dogs, comprising Garrett Wall, Dave Mooney, Howard Brown and Robbie K Jones – two Irishmen, an Englishman and an...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of La Vie de Riley

La Vie de Riley

The Riley Family Band

Top of the World

Valcour Records

Rating: ★★★★

They say, ‘the family that plays together, stays together.’ At the home of Cajun accordionist, fiddler and songwriter Steve Riley...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Pan Atlantico

Pan Atlantico

Diana Baroni & Simon Drappier

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★★

Pan Atlantico is a powerful and deeply-moving album that fuses Latin, North American and European styles. Performed live, the sound...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of El Mirador

El Mirador

Calexico

ANTI-

Rating: ★★★★

Since their first album 25 years ago, the duo of Joey Burns and John Convertino have carved out a niche...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Crooked Tree

Crooked Tree

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway

Top of the World

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Want to know what 21st-century bluegrass sounds like? Crooked Tree, Molly Tuttle’s first purely bluegrass recording, is the answer. Recorded...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Clichê

Clichê

Raf Vilar

Ajabu! Records

Rating: ★★★★

Back in 2011, this London-based Brazilian singer-songwriter brought out a first album with the somewhat misleading title, Studies in Bossa...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Chicha Popular: Love & Social Political Songs from Discos Horoscopo 1977-87

Chicha Popular: Love & Social Political Songs from Discos Horoscopo 1977-87

VARIOUS ARTSTS

Discos Horoscopo/Rebel Up Records

Rating: ★★★

By the late 70s Peruvian cumbia had become synonymous with neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Lima populated by internal migrants...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of In My Own Time

In My Own Time

Karen Dalton

Light in the Attic

Rating: ★★★★★

Karen Dalton, who died in 1993 at age 55, was for a brief period in the 1960s the darling dark...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

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