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On your free CD – the editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in this issue

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01 Onipa ‘Gbomo (Mtukudzi Homage)’

02 Susana Baca ‘Negra del Alma’ 03 Davide Ambrogio ‘A San Rocco’

04 Sofia Rei ‘Un Mismo Cielo’ 05 Broadside Hacks feat Yorkston/Thorne/Khan

‘The Jealous Woman’ (A’ Bhean Iadach) 06 Béla Fleck (feat Bryan Sutton, Edgar Meyer,

Sam Bush & Stuart Duncan) ‘Vertigo’ 07 Meridian Brothers & Conjunto Media Luna

‘En Teusaquillo te Pueden Partir la Cara’ 08 Justin Adams & Mauro Durante ‘Still Moving’

09 Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita ‘Allah Léno’ 10 Australian Art Orchestra, Daniel Wilfred, David Wilfred, Sunny Kim, Peter Knight & Aviva Endean ‘Gadayka/Grenadilla’

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PLUS 5 BONUS TR CKS FE T DONGY NG GOZUP , THE M STER MUSICI NS OF JOUJOUK & MORE

PLUS 5 bonus tracks 11 The Master Musicians of Joujouka ‘A ay t a’

12 Dongyang Gozupa ‘Spirit’

13 Comorian ‘The Devil Doesn’t Eat Fire, He Eats Papaya’ 14 Michael Levy ‘Skolion of Seikilos (Ancient Greek Drinking Song)’

15 Yoshikazu Iwamoto ‘Shishi’

Exclusively with the November 2021 issue of Songlines. STWCD148.

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TOP OF THE WORLD PLAYLIST TRACKS

01 Onipa ‘Gbomo (Mtukudzi Homage)’ From Tapes of Utopia on Boomerang Records Ebullient mantras and darting guitar kick up this zippy tribute to Zimbabwean musician, philanthropist and human rights activist Oliver ‘Tuku’ Mtukudzi. See p51

06 Béla Fleck ‘Vertigo’ (feat Bryan Sutton, Edgar Meyer, Sam Bush & Stuart Duncan) From MyBluegrass Heart on Renew Records/BMG Chambergrass at its finest; a rollicking, virtuosic banjo-and-fiddle fusing flume ride to make you dizzy. See p54

02 Susana Baca ‘Negra del Alma’ From Palabras Urgentes on Real World Records Afro-Peruvian grande dame Susana Baca gives this Manuelcha Prado tune a compelling makeover, her plangent vocal tones accompanied by some rousing Andean brass. See p52

03 Davide Ambrogio ‘A San Rocco’ From Evocazioni e Invocazioni on Catalea Vivid exhibitions of percussive pencilplucked guitar and lacerating salvos of riotous zampogna ferment wild Calabrian carry-ons – a trance-inducing, saintseeking invocation. See p59

04 Sofia Rei ‘Un Mismo Cielo’ From UMBRALon Cascabelera Records Argentinian folkloric traditions and digital glitch-stitched futurism combine to form sublime tapestries of impressively questing creativity, the surreal backdrop to Rei’s bewitching vocal morse code. See p68

07 Meridian Brothers & Conjunto Media Luna ‘En Teusaquillo te Pueden Partir la Cara’ From Paz en la Tierra on Bongo Joe Colombian conspirators surf some accordion-powered thermals back to golden-age vallenato. See p56

08 Justin Adams & Mauro Durante ‘Still Moving’ From Still Moving on Ponderosa Music Records Durante’s core pulse and its granular rhythmic satellites shift beneath Adams’ haunting Cooder-esque axe-work on this plaintive hymnal. See p67

09 Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita ‘Allah Léno’ From SUBA on bendigedig Mezzo ivories and chiming kora glisten in heavenly iridescence, as Keita’s rich voice glides across fluttery instrumental lattice with occasional jazzy outbreaks. See p71

05 Broadside Hacks feat Yorkston/Thorne/Khan ‘The Jealous Woman’ (A’ Bhean Iadach) From Songs Without Authors Vol 1 on Broadside Hacks Aquatic tragedy strikes at the grisly heart of this drone-swaddled take on an old Celtic yarn. See p60

10 Australian Art Orchestra, Daniel & David Wilfred, Sunny Kim, Peter Knight & Aviva Endean ‘Gadayka/Grenadilla’ From Hand to Earth on Australian Art Orchestra A deep-listening didgeridoo summit churning with elemental power. See p65

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