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Review of Guepa Je!

Guepa Je!

Edmundo Arias

Radio Martiko

Rating: ★★★★★

Radio Martiko’s compilation of Lucho Bermúdez’ cumbia from the 50s and 60s was a highlight of 2022. This latest illuminates...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of Faz Tempo

Faz Tempo

Alvorada

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

When I first arrived in Brazil, one of my first experiences with live music was a roda de choro in...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of Made It All Up

Made It All Up

Sociograss

Sociograss

Rating: ★★★

Sociograss formed in 2018 when guitarist and singer Tim Leslie of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, visited Edinburgh, Scotland, for the first time....

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of Sotak

Sotak

Karla Da Silva

Top of the World

Sotak Musik

Rating: ★★★★

Now living in Lisbon and playing much of her music in Portugal and France, Karla Da Silva was born in...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of Super Disco Pirata

Super Disco Pirata

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

Analog Africa

Rating: ★★★★

Twenty-three sometimes bizarre, but often glorious cuts of mainly Colombian cumbia, assembled from pirated bootleg records, from the period 1965-80,...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of In the Real World

In the Real World

Eric Bibb

Stony Plain Records

Rating: ★★★★

Son of singer, actor and civil rights activist Leon Bibb, Eric Bibb carries forward his father’s legacy in all the...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of I’m Glad About It: The Legacy of Gospel Music in Louisville, 1958-1981

I’m Glad About It: The Legacy of Gospel Music in Louisville, 1958-1981

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Louisville Story Project

Rating: ★★★★★

According to contributing singer Bessie Leavell Palmer, ‘gospel music is written out of the depths of somebody’s soul.’ Well, this...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of I’m Jimmy Reed

I’m Jimmy Reed

Jimmy Reed

Craft Recordings / Bluesville

Rating: ★★★★★

It’s routinely hailed as the first great blues album but, as was the case with most bluesmen of his generation,...

Reviewed 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 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 in issue January/2025

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