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Review of Todo el Mundo

Todo el Mundo

Kiko Villamizar

WEPA Studios

Rating: ★★★

Texas-based Colombian musician and lately also stand-up comedian Kiko Villamizar has released his new album Todo el Mundo following the...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Marchita

Marchita

Silvana Estrada

Top of the World

Glassnote Records

Rating: ★★★★

Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada plays a host of instruments, but says she most often opts for the Venezuelan cuatro guitar,...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Images on Guitar

Images on Guitar

Baden Powell

MPS Music

Rating: ★★★★

The late Brazilian acoustic guitarist Baden Powell – yes, his father named him after the founder of the scouting movement...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of 20 Printemps

20 Printemps

Le Vent du Nord | Le Vent Du Nord

La Compagnie Du Nord

Rating: ★★★★

Le Vent Du Nord have been together for 20 years, and this, their 11th album, marks that anniversary. Calling it...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Welcome to New Hoyle

Welcome to New Hoyle

Brad Fielder

Brad Fielder

Rating: ★★★

New Hoyle is a figment of Brad Fielder’s musical imagination. Inspired by a tiny, no-longer-extant town in north-west Oklahoma where...

Reviewed in issue March/2022

Review of IRE

IRE

Combo Chimbita

Top of the World

ANTI-

Rating: ★★★★

These four Colombians who met, and started making music together, in New York, have crafted their own slightly-rock, slightly-psych and...

Reviewed in issue March/2022

Review of It’s a Good, Good Thing: The Latin Soul of Fania Records

It’s a Good, Good Thing: The Latin Soul of Fania Records

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Fania Records

Rating: ★★★

Fania Records was started by Dominican musician Johnny Pacheco in 1964 with the idea of getting Latin recordings made by...

Reviewed in issue March/2022

Review of Delta Estácio Blues

Delta Estácio Blues

Juçara Marçal

Mais Um Discos/QTV

Rating: ★★★★

Best known as Metá Metá’s vocalist, Marçal spent four years making this album, a lengthy process in which co-producer Kiko Dinucci...

Reviewed in issue March/2022

Review of Chinook Waltz

Chinook Waltz

Over the Moon

Borealis Records

Rating: ★★★

When you click the ‘Music’ tab on Over the Moon’s website, the introductory note says, ‘With this album, we tried...

Reviewed in issue March/2022

Review of Brave Land

Brave Land

Raine Hamilton

Raine Hamilton

Rating: ★★★

Winnipeg native Raine Hamilton’s third album is an enthusiastic fusion of chamber string music and fairly typical folk singer-songwriter structures....

Reviewed in issue March/2022

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