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Review of Live At Carnegie Hall

Live At Carnegie Hall

Natalia Lafourcade

Sony

Rating: ★★★

Playing live at New York’s Carnegie Hall is a career-crowning moment for Latin American artists, representing global recognition and a...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of Another Mississippi Sunday Morning

Another Mississippi Sunday Morning

Parchman Prison Prayer

Glitterbeat GmbH

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded by inmates of Mississippi’s Parchman Prison alongside Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan, this album picks up where 2023’s Some Mississippi...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of Ritmo Del Barrio

Ritmo Del Barrio

Chicha Por Favor Vol 1 – Grooves from El Volcán: The Heartbeat of Peruvian Cumbia

Rating: ★★★

These grooves constitute a limited-edition LP of ten tracks from the El Volcán label recorded during the 70s and 80s....

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of Nací Mestizo

Nací Mestizo

La Pambelé

discos elgozo

Rating: ★★★★★

Intertextuality is not a common word to introduce a review of dance music, but it is everywhere in this second...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of Armageddon in a Sunny Dress

Armageddon in a Sunny Dress

Sunny War

New Cloud Records

Rating: ★★★

According to Sunny War, the music on Armageddon in a Sunny Dress, her follow-up to 2023’s Anarchist Gospel, partly stems...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of Niebla

Niebla

Ramon Chicharron

Ray-On

Rating: ★★★

From Medellín to Montréal… Multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Alexander Betancur moved from his native Colombia to Canada in 2005. Since then,...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of Loudon Live in London

Loudon Live in London

Loudon Wainwright III

The Last Music Company

Rating: ★★★

An excellent overview of the six-decade-long career of one of America’s preeminent (and funniest) troubadours. Recorded during a three-night stand...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of Viaje Sideral

Viaje Sideral

El León Pardo

AYA Records

Rating: ★★★★

A member of the UK/Colombian Mestizo project, El León Pardo plays the kuisi and other ancient Colombian flutes, as well...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of Tempestuoso

Tempestuoso

Tio Chorinho

Lulaworld Records

Rating: ★★★

Tempestuoso is the infectious second album from Tio Chorinho, Canada’s first ensemble dedicated to choro music. While this Brazilian style...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Review of High Horse

High Horse

High Horse

Adhyâropa Records

Rating: ★★★★

If beautiful, genre-melding compositions that blur the lines between bluegrass, roots, jazz and chamber music performed by a group of...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

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