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Review of Feja Feja

Feja Feja

Flying Bantu

Next Music

Rating: ★★★

Haling from Victoria Falls on Zimbabwe’s border with Zambia, Flying Bantu have been a fixture on southern Africa’s touring and...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/2025

Review of Magnetismo Animal

Magnetismo Animal

La Sonora Mazurén

Top of the World

Barbès Records

Rating: ★★★★

Bogotá’s indie-tropical darlings La Sonora Mazurén continue their psychedelic musical adventures on their second album Magnetismo Animal. With a line-up...

Reviewed by Justin Turford in issue: January/2025

Review of Golden Age

Golden Age

Gitkin

Wonderwheel

Rating: ★★★★

Any album that cites influences as diverse as swamp jazz, Malian desert rock, Peru’s psychedelic chicha music and ‘master of...

Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: January/2025

Review of Epourall

Epourall

Ciac Boum

Le Grand Barbichon

Rating: ★★★★

The new album from western French folk band Ciac Boum is a new direction for them. Bigger, stranger arrangements, tapping...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: January/2025

Review of Cocinando

Cocinando

Martín López y Sus Estrellas

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★

Vampisoul unlock a dozen more Peruvian tropical curios. Recorded between 1969 and 1971, the bandleader (a policeman using an assumed...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/2025

Review of Galgi

Galgi

Karantamba

Teranga Beat

Rating: ★★★

Gambian guitarist and bandleader Bai Janha’s storied career was so prolific that whole albums from his group Karantamba lingered unreleased...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: January/2025

Review of DJAM!

DJAM!

DJAM!

Top of the World

Guitar Globetrotter Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

The two musicians who make up DJAM! have both featured separately in recent issues of Songlines. The Dutch guitarist Joep...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/2025

Review of American Railroad

American Railroad

Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens

Top of the World

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★★★

For fans fortunate enough to get on board this project during its tour of the US from 2023 to 2024,...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: January/2025

Review of A Little Wilderness

A Little Wilderness

Jeri Foreman & Ruth Eliza

Scribe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Foreman is the founder of the Glasgow Old Time Session who has taken her old-time fiddle music around the world,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2025

Review of Asas Terrenas

Asas Terrenas

Sarine

Futura Resistenza

Rating: ★★★

Sarine is Mariano Melo, a Brazilian multi-instrumentalist based in São Paulo. Melo is known for his drumming with DEAFKIDS, purveyors...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: January/2025

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