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Walter Zanetti – Cantos Yoruba de Cuba

There is a radiance to Walter Zanetti's guitar on Cantos Yoruba de Cuba, which sounds sun-kissed to the extent that light appears to be thinning out and permeating his strings, a quality of both incandescence and brittleness or spareness. After spending a month in Cuba, studying under the local guitarist and composer José Angel Navarro in a small town...

Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari – Journey to Nabta Playa

The opening track from Angel Bat Dawid and Naima Nefertari's big double album Journey to Nabta Playa finds the two musicians amid a sandstorm whose whorling winds are accompanied by their own impish aerophones and the scattered patter of rattling cans and clinking chimes. Grainy and buffeted on 'Neptune Desert Sounds', those chimes feel more hallowed and personal on...

Mopcut – RYOK

On the third full-length album by the trio of Audrey Chen, Julien Desprez and Lukas Koenig a heady blend of pitches between the wailing signals of the guitar, crashing drums and the murkier siren calls of the bass synthesizer plus others keys and effects creates a kind of mesh which rolls out over a series of compositions always in...

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