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On your free CD – the editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in this issue
BEST NE LBUM RELE SES MONSIEUR DOUM NI | RUSHI J IN | B LIM Y PROJECT N MG R | F PY L FERTIN NE QU RTET ND MORE...
01 Monsieur Doumani ‘Tiritichtas’
02 Namgar ‘Yaboo-Aidoo’
03 Badume’s Band & Selamnesh Zéméné ‘Ye’ambassel Mare’
04 Yinon Muallem ‘Hicaz Saz Semaisi – Oriental Circles’ 05 JP Harris’ Dreadful Wind & Rain ‘House Carpenter’
06 Arushi Jain ‘Richer Than Blood’
07 Balimaya Project ‘Balimaya’ 08 Fapy Lafertin New Quartet ‘The Baltic’ 09 Ches Smith and We All Break ‘Woule Pou Mwen’
10 Meelodi ‘Tahere’
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11 Buena Vista Social Club ‘De Camino a La Vereda’ 12 Joachim Cooder ‘Over That Road I’m Bound to Go’
13 Aga Ujma ‘Night’ 14 Alim & Fargana Qasimov ‘Bardasht’ 15 Ladysmith Black Mambazo ‘Township Jive’
16 Elektro Hafiz ‘Deutsche Freunde’
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TOP OF THE WORLD PLAYLIST TRACKS
01 Monsieur Doumani ‘Tiritichtas’ From Pissourin on Glitterbeat Records Cypriot avant-folkists ratchet up an impish psych-drenched sunshine shuffler showcasing bundles of hip-shaking savvy and brassy devilment, with quaint multivoiced a cappella denouement. See p51
06 Arushi Jain ‘Richer Than Blood’ From Underthe Lilac Skyon Leaving Records The classically-trained Hindustani singer brews a burbling ambient breeze of modular synth that flows like a summer raga composed of shimmering electric static and mutant cicada chorus. See p58
02 Namgar ‘Yaboo-Aidoo’ From Nayan Navaa on ARC Music Thrash metal axe salvos, pugilistic percussion and ripples of Mongolian zither accompany the rapturous divinations of Buryat vocal powerhouse Namgar Lhasaranova. See p55
03 Badume’s Band & Selamnesh Zéméné ‘ Ye’ambassel Mare’ From Yaho Bele / SayYeah on Innacor Slow and bluesy does it. These European Ethio-jazzers bleed raw guitar fuzz over sparse grooves and extended chords, as Zéméné’s voice soars skyward. See p42 04 Yinon Muallem ‘Hicaz Saz Semaisi – Oriental Circles’ From Norwegian Oud on Galileo Music Ottoman classicism effortlessly shifts tempo to broody passages riding punchy oud patterns, purling qanun, brassy calls and hypnotic frame-drum rhythms. See p57
07 Balimaya Project ‘Balimaya’ From Wolo So on Jazz re:freshed Members of London’s new jazz collective come firing out of the starting blocks with intoxicating West African rhythmic wig-outs buttressing natty swirls of kora and balafon. See p43
08 Fapy Lafertin New Quartet ‘The Baltic’ From Atlântico on Frémeaux & Associés Django’s legacy lives on in the lush string interplay of this suave atmospheric cut by an ensemble plainly steeped in the poise of the Hot Club mode. See p50
09 Ches Smith and We All Break ‘Woule Pou Mwen’ From Path of Seven Colors on Pyroclastic Recordings Haitian drum patterns and entrancing vocal chants set the foundations for some measured piano-led jazz abstraction on this innovative stylistic blend. See p59
05 JP Harris’ Dreadful Wind & Rain ‘House Carpenter’ From Don't You MarryNo Railroad Man on Free Dirt Records With haunting vocals and poignant fretless homemade banjo strum, Joshua Press Harris exhumes a gem from the Alan Lomax archive of sonic discovery. See p45
10 Meelodi ‘Tahere’ From The Great Blue Wheel on Meelodi Medi Farmani summons the spirit of Persian poet Táhirih Qurrat al-‘Ayn whose writings feature on this track, augmented by Ole Andre Farstad’s dulcet guitar and Kadialy Kouyate’s kora. See p61
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