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Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: April 6, 2025
New releases from Ibex Band, Lucy Dacus, and Various Artists

Ibex Band
Stereo Instrumental Music
(Muzikawi)

★★★★

RELEASED by Paris-based record label Buda Musique between 1998 and 2017, the Ethiopiques album series did a great job of making the wider world aware of Ethiopia’s rich musical culture, especially ethno-jazz artists of the 1960s and 1970s.

However, they never released this fabulous 1976 record Stereo Instrumental Music — it’s only just been rediscovered. 

Lucy Dacus
Forever Is A Feeling
(Polydor)

★★★★

Various Artists
Chet Baker Re:imagined
(Decca)

★★★

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