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Review of Vento do Mar

Vento do Mar

Cacha Mundinho

Mundus Productions

Rating: ★★★★

This soulful album has the seamless feel of a longtime collaboration, rather than the debut production that it is. Portuguese...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: December/2024

Review of No Love in Lagos

No Love in Lagos

Show Dem Camp, The Cavemen, Nsikak David

Show Dem Records

Rating: ★★★★

Two of Lagos’ most talented duos, The Cavemen and Show Dem Camp, speak to the dating scene in the nation’s...

Reviewed by Erin Cobby in issue: December/2024

Review of The Shovel Dance

The Shovel Dance

Shovel Dance Collective

American Dreams

Rating: ★★★

Lankum aren’t the only purveyors of doom-laden folk. London-based nine-piece Shovel Dance Collective show with this, their second album, that...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2024

Review of Pique

Pique

Dora Morelenbaum

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★★

Those familiar with the surname Morelenbaum or the Latin Grammy award-winning band Bala Desejo in the context of Brazilian music...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: December/2024

Review of Betwixt & Between 11

Betwixt & Between 11

Bridget & Kitty/Resonant Bodies

Betwixt & Between Tapes

Rating: ★★★

Betwixt & Between Tapes is a quirky, niche proposition: an occasional series of cassette tape EPs featuring traditional, improvised and...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2024

Review of Coexistence

Coexistence

Dal:um

Top of the World

Glitterbeat/tak:til

Rating: ★★★★

Korean duo Dal:um return for a second album of duelling gayageum and geomungo (plucked zithers from the Korean classical tradition)....

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2024

Review of Umbelliferæ

Umbelliferæ

Kate Young

Kate Young

Rating: ★★★★

Inspired by her love of aromatic plants, the traditions of folk and classical music, and her own chromesthesia (‘ability to...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2024

Review of Gira

Gira

MOMO.

Top of the World

Batov Records

Rating: ★★★★

Marcelo Frota, from Rio de Janeiro, has lived and recorded all over the world, but for his seventh album he...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: December/2024

Review of Canhoto de Pé

Canhoto de Pé

Thiago França

YB Music

Rating: ★★★★

Since his first recordings in 2009 Thiago França has covered a remarkable variety of genres, from the Afro-jazz-punk of MetaL...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: December/2024

Review of Lifa Iotungard (Live)

Lifa Iotungard (Live)

Heilung

Season of Mist

Rating: ★★★★

For German Kai Uwe Faust, Dane Christopher Juul and Norwegian Maria Franz, who record together as Heilung, a live album...

Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: December/2024

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