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Review of Suba

Suba

Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita

Top of the World

bendigedig

Rating: ★★★★

Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita's debut album as a duo, Transparent Water, came out in 2017 and was a transporting...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Review of Soleil

Soleil

AMAMI

Bongo Joe

Rating: ★★★★

AMAMI are a Geneva-based three-piece who strive to combine dancehall, Afro pop and no wave. Soleil boasts so much; there...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Review of Headonix

Headonix

KingL Man

Ear Conditioning

Rating: ★★★★

If you knew and loved Fun-Da-Mental, the so-called ‘Asian Public Enemy’, the agit-popping global prog-punk collective that cut a swathe...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Review of La Grande Fête

La Grande Fête

Belcirque

ARC Music

Rating: ★★

From its opening, soothing ooooh-oooohs, the third album from Belcirque has a clean, elegant sound. That might be due to...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Review of Trotula

Trotula

Hartmann Ensemble

Rupa Rupa Records

Rating: ★★★★

Hailing from Salerno, Italy, Hartmann Ensemble release a debut whose title is inspired by Trotula De Ruggiero, a celebrated woman...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Review of The Great Blue Wheel

The Great Blue Wheel

Meelodi

Top of the World

Meelodi

Rating: ★★★★★

Bergen-based but worldly in concept, Meelodi is the brain-child of Norwegian Ole Andre Farstad and Iranian Medi Farmani. On this,...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Review of Char Taal and a Raga Rainbow

Char Taal and a Raga Rainbow

Rakkatak

Rakkatak

Rating: ★★

These days North India is far from the only place you can find examples of the Hindustani music associated with...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Review of Music for Dancing

Music for Dancing

Elettro Mascarimiri

ItalySona

Rating: ★★★

Since the 90s Apulian/Roma musician and producer Claudio ‘Cavallo’ Giagnotti has worked to innovate the hugely popular pizzica salentina, exploring...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Review of Under the Lilac Sky

Under the Lilac Sky

Arushi Jain

Top of the World

Leaving Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Arushi Jain is an Indian-born, classically-trained Hindustani singer. She is also a Brooklyn-based modular synthesizer enthusiast. Using these two powerful...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Review of Your Mother Was a Peacock

Your Mother Was a Peacock

Oxlip

Garment District Records

Rating: ★★★

Oxlip is Vancouver-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jayne Trimble, originally from Northern Ireland, and her philosophy on Your Mother Was a...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

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