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Review of Bamako Moon

Bamako Moon

Invisible System

Harper Diabate

Rating: ★

So-called reality is warped on Bamako Moon, as Dan Harper, otherwise known as Invisible System, reconfigures core material from his...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2021

Review of Sing It for a Lifetime

Sing It for a Lifetime

Heidi Talbot

Absolute

Rating: ★★★★

Heidi Talbot’s latest album is borne from separation and adversity – recorded in a home in the process of being...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2022

Review of American Legacies

American Legacies

Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Del McCoury Band

McCoury Music

Rating: ★★★★★

What's most surprising about this unlikely collaboration between two groups – one rooted in traditional New Orleans jazz, the other...

Reviewed by Roger Hahn in issue: July/2011

Review of Mosese

Mosese

Lumingu Puati (Zorro)

BBE Africa

Rating: ★★★

The man behind BBE's latest Tabansi Records re-release, recorded in Nigeria in 1979, hails from the Congo basin: Lumingu Puati...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: December/2019

Review of The Hare's Corner

The Hare's Corner

Colm Mac Con lomaire

Plateau Records

Rating: ★★★

Released in his native Ireland in 2008, Cúinne An Ghiorria (The Hare's Corner) is the solo debut by Kíla co-founder...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2011

Review of Hills

Hills

Jack Rutter

Jack Rutter

Rating: ★★★★

Still only in his mid 20s, Rutter has a sterling pedigree, having recorded with Seth Lakeman and Jackie Oates alongside...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2017

Review of Hearts & Minds

Hearts & Minds

Seth Lakeman

Virgin/Relentless CDREL21

Rating: ★★★

Hearts & Minds begins with a riff reminiscent of Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranoid’. Which is somewhat surprising, given that Lakeman described...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2010

Review of Talea

Talea

Paolo Angeli

ReR Megacorp

Rating: ★★★★

This enormous, virtuosic set is a collage from Paolo Angeli's solo dates – over 60 of them – performed across...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: October/2017

Review of TEN

TEN

SAMYO

Milapfest

Rating: ★★★

The title of this disc refers not only to the ten tracks on the CD, but also to the tenth...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2013

Review of Andarién

Andarién

Cántaro

Milan 3993022

Rating: ★★★

‘A Darién’ has a beautiful melody, over which a woman and a man's voice take us to the region of...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2010

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