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Review of This is How the Ladies Dance

This is How the Ladies Dance

Eabhal

Eabhal

Rating: ★★★★

Battle of the Folk Bands winners at the 2018 Edinburgh Tradfest, Glasgow-based five-piece Eabhal originally came together on the isle...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2019

Review of Ahol az Ökör is Bort Iszik!

Ahol az Ökör is Bort Iszik!

Magos | Magos & Limón

Fonó

Rating: ★★★★

Magos are a fine Hungarian folk band playing authentic village music, mostly from Romanian Transylvania. They and their violinist Csaba...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2023

Review of La Fasciculation

La Fasciculation

Les Fils Canouche

Vlad Productions

Rating: ★★★★

Their name translates roughly as the ‘Sons of a French Gypsy poodle.’ They were the official group at the annual...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2017

Review of When the Day is on the Turn

When the Day is on the Turn

Dallahan

Dallahan

Rating: ★★★★

Formed in December 2013, Edinburgh-based, Irish-Hungarian outfit Dallahan arrived on Scotland's live circuit with all cylinders firing. This is their...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Salsa Salsa

Salsa Salsa

Tito Puente and His Orchestra

In The Woods

Rating: ★★★★★

In January 1983 Tito Puente took his orchestra to a club in New York, for a rousing and historic session....

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: September/2024

Review of This is What I Want to Say

This is What I Want to Say

Martyn Joseph

Pipe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Throughout a career spanning 40 years, nearly that many albums and thousands of live performances, the Welsh singer-songwriter with the...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2024

Review of A Blade Because a Blade is Whole

A Blade Because a Blade is Whole

Alabaster DePlume

International Anthem

Rating: ★★★★

Emerging from the UK’s experimental underground, DePlume’s Spotify statistics indicate that his concoction of poetry and jazz provides a taste...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2025

Review of Pop Yeh Yeh: Psychedelic Rock from Singapore and Malaysia 1964-1970

Pop Yeh Yeh: Psychedelic Rock from Singapore and Malaysia 1964-1970

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Sublime Frequencies

Rating: ★★★★★

The latest compilation from Seattle-based Sublime Frequencies is a dizzying double whammy of obscurities and information. Documenting the 60s rock...

Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: June/2013

Review of Rough Guide to Salsa Dance

Rough Guide to Salsa Dance

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network RGNET1239CD

Rating: ★★★

Just how much juice is there left to squeeze from the salsa market? Tons, if the recent assembly line of...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2010

Review of The Good is a Big God

The Good is a Big God

Domenico Lancellotti

Luaka Bop

Rating: ★★★★

Over the years, I have returned to Rio drummer Domenico Lancellotti's collaborations with Moreno Veloso and Alexandre Kassin - the...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

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