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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 F NF RE CIOC RLI | K RINE POL RT & D VE MILLIG N
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01 Kandy Guira ‘Wasindi’ 02 Àbáse ‘Agangatolú’ (feat Jadson Xabla, Gabriel Santana, Dr Drumah, Fanni Zahár)
03 Bryan Rahija ‘Eight of Wands’ 04 Bonga Jean-Baptiste ‘Gede Nibo’ 05 El Búho ‘Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta’ 06 Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan ‘Craigie Hill’ 07 Eric Jacobsen, Kayhan Kalhor & Sandeep Das ‘Aaj Ki Raat’ (feat Greater Bridgeport Symphony)
08 Maurice Louca ‘Bidayat (Holocene)’ 09 Kondi Band ‘How Will It Be for Me in This World?’ 10 Fanfare Ciocarlia ‘Porsche Polka (Dedicated to Carsten Ernst)’
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PLUS 5 bonus tracks 11 Dudu Pukwana ‘Pezulu (Way Up)’
12 Purbayan Chatterjee ‘Lalitha (The Joyful Mother)’ (feat Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Shankar Mahadevan, Mame Khan & Michael League)
13 Gro Marie Svidal ‘Håstabøen’ 14 Tommy Khosla ‘Lost World’ 15 Amsterdam Klezmer Band ‘AKB Jubilee’
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01 Kandy Guira ‘Wasindi’ From Nagtaba on Que du Bonheur en Son/Vlad Production/ RFI Talents/Inouïe Distribution Traditional Burkinabé rhythms and subtle electro embellishments bubble and pulse beneath Guira as she sings in her Mooré mother tongue. See p44
06 Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan ‘Craigie Hill’ From Still as YourSleeping on Hudson Records Dave Milligan’s spare lullaby-like piano deployments are the perfect foil for Karine Polwart’s tender reading of this traditional lament. See p53
02 Àbáse ‘Agangatolú’ (feat Jadson Xabla, Gabriel Santana, Dr Drumah, Fanni Zahár) From Laroyê on Oshu Records Hungarian beat mechanic Szabolcs Bognár drafts in Brazilian buddies on this intoxicating MPB-style summit. See p58
03 Bryan Rahija ‘Eight of Wands’ From Timberon Ramseur Records This sublime Portland-based fingerpicker crafts some bucolic bluegrass-indebted arpeggios, his patterns gradually gathering momentum before the briefest burst of porch-side harmonica wheeze. See p48 04 Bonga Jean-Baptiste ‘Gede Nibo’ From Boula on Buda Musique Mystic mantras and tanbou (barrel drums) combine in deep mizik rasin amalgams of feverishly syncopated honour-giving as this Haitian voodoo priest praises his faith’s panoply of beneficent deities. See 46
07 Eric Jacobsen, Kayhan Kalhor & Sandeep Das ‘Aaj Ki Raat’ (feat Greater Bridgeport Symphony) From Blue as the Turquoise Night on Bright Shiny things An RD Burman Bollywood cut decked out in funky tabla and sweeping string arrangements by Osvaldo Golijov. See p63
08 Maurice Louca ‘Bidayat (Holocene)’ From Saet El Hazz (The LuckHour) on Sub Rosa/Northern Spy Records Familiar Middle Eastern motifs fracture and atomise on the cusp of a feral groove during improvised bouts of mesmeric abstraction courtesy of this Cairo-based experimentalist. See p57
09 Kondi Band ‘How Will it be for Me in this World?’ From We Famous on Strut Records Blind Sierra Leonean thumb-piano ace Sorie Kondi hooks up with American producer Chief Boima for this zippy synthdriven, digit-fidget workout. See p45
05 El Búho ‘Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta’ From Natura Sonora on Shika Shika Field recordings and rippling, incrementally building, near-Reichian chime-cycles conjure the flora and fauna of isolated forest vistas. See p60
10 Fanfare Ciocarlia ‘Porsche Polka (Dedicated to Carsten Ernst)’ From It Wasn't Hard to Love You on Asphalt Tango Records Some lung-busting horn-led frenzy from the world’s foremost Balkan brass band still putting the oomph into oompah. See p50
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