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Category: Album reviews

Arthur de Faria & Pedro Longes - Canciones con Drama cover artwork. A photo of the artists sitting around a table.
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Curtain Call: Canciones Con Drama Steps Into The Studio

Iliana Cabrera September 19, 2025 No Comments Arthur de Faria'Pedro Longesworld music

Arthur de Faria & Pedro Longes – Canciones con Drama (YB Music, 2025) Arthur de Faria and Pedro Longes have issued their debut album, Canciones…

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Alaa Zouiten - Aficionado - Flamenco Mor cover artwork. Zouiten holding an oud with monumental Granada in the background,
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Alaa Zouiten: Flamenco Meets The Music of the Maghreb

Angel Romero September 17, 2025 No Comments Alaa ZouitenArabic musicFlamencoMoroccan musicoudworld fusionworld music

Alaa Zouiten – Aficionado – Flamenco Moro (self-release, 2025) Aficionado – Flamenco Moro is a captivating project by Moroccan virtuoso musician Alaa Zouiten that effortlessly…

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The album cover shows a stylized, cartoon-like dancer adorned with jewelry, moving behind a curtain of colorful beads. The title “Oriental Soul” appears at the top in bold yellow lettering, while the artist’s name, “Chettini and the Turkish Trio,” is displayed in a decorative box at the bottom.
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East Meets Best: Chettini’s ‘Oriental Soul’ Returns on Vinyl

Tyler Bennet September 16, 2025 No Comments Anatolian musicChettini and the Turkish TrioTurkish musicworld music

Chettini and the Turkish Trio – Oriental Soul (Ironhand Records, 2025 reissue) Oriental Soul, the 1972 album by Turkish multi-instrumentalist Çetin Bükey, credited here as…

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The album cover for Trust Fall by Hannah Delynn features a double-exposed photograph of a woman in a long red coat standing on a snow-dusted forest path. The blurred layering effect creates the illusion of her appearing twice, side by side, against a backdrop of bare trees and stone steps. The title Trust Fall and artist’s name appear in handwritten-style white lettering in the lower right corner.
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Falling Into Place: Hannah Delynn’s “Trust Fall” Lands September 5, 2025

Madison Quinn September 15, 2025 1 Comment Hannah Delynn

Hannah Delynn – Trust Fall (self-released, 2025) When an artist releases a debut full-length album, it often feels like the opening of a long-sealed journal.…

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The album cover for Steppin’ Out! by Roomful of Blues shows a stylish woman in a sparkling red dress and wide-brimmed hat stepping out of a dark blue car.
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A Step Well Taken: Roomful Of Blues ‘Steppin’ Out!’

Angel Romero September 14, 2025 No Comments bluesRoomful Of Bluesworld music

Roomful Of Blues — Steppin’ Out! (Alligator Records, 2025) Roomful of Blues returns with Steppin’ Out!, the band’s 20th album and the first to feature…

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Agustín Pereyra Lucena – Puertos de Alternativa cover artwork. A photo of the left hand over a guitar neck.
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Harboring Genius: Agustín Pereyra Lucena’s Rare Gem Resurfaces

Iliana Cabrera September 14, 2025 No Comments Agustín Pereyra Lucenaworld music

Agustín Pereyra Lucena – Puertos de Alternativa (Far Out Recordings, 2025) Far Out Recordings expands its archival series with the first-ever vinyl reissue of Puertos…

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The album cover for Al-hambra features a beige background with abstract line art and faint Moorish design. The title “Al-hambra” appears in bold stylized lettering that combines red and green tones, with “oud & flamenco guitar” written beneath it. Along the bottom, colorful brushstrokes in red, green, and gold form a cityscape, with the artists’ names, Ahmed Mukhtar and Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde, displayed in green.
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Strings of a Feather

Tom Orr September 13, 2025 No Comments Ahmed MukhtarArabic musicFlamencoIgnacio Lusardi Monteverdeworld fusionworld music

Ahmed Mukhtar and Lusardi Monteverde – Al-hambra (ARC Music, 2025) Flamenco guitar and the Arabic lute known as the oud go together like, well, feel…

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The album cover features geometric Arabic calligraphy in black against a light background, creating a block-like design. In the top right corner, a pink emblem with the words “Saha Gnawa” in both Arabic and English.
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Saha Gnawa Channels Spellbinding Gnawa Roots Into Future Sound

Angel Romero September 12, 2025 No Comments GnawaSaha Gnawaworld music

Saha Gnawa – Saha Gnawa (Pique-Nique Recordings, 2025) Saha Gnawa is a Brooklyn-based ensemble that combines transfixing Moroccan Gnawa music with jazz, from New York’s…

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Solo Diarra – Yimenga cover artwork. A black and white profile photo of the artist.
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Yimenga, Solo Debut by Solo Diarra

Angel Romero September 11, 2025 No Comments Burkina FasoBurkinan musicSolo Diarraworld music

Solo Diarra – Yimenga (Global Sonics GS06125, 2025) Yimenga is the debut solo album of Burkinan multi-instrumentalist Solo Diarra. Yimenga means “Be Yourself” in Bambara.…

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Desert Dreaming: Warlpiri Wisdom Meets Minimal Electronica

Tyler Bennet September 10, 2025 No Comments

Crown and Country – Crown and Country (ABC Music and Akuphone, 2025) Crown and Country is an ambitious audiovisual project that fuses ancestral Warlpiri ceremony with…

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