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Review of Reclaim

Reclaim

Mishra

Mishra Music

Rating: ★★★

Home-recorded entirely live-in-the-room, in a farmhouse in Gloucestershire, Mishra’s new album sets out its stall via an eclectic musical fusion...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2021

Review of Shake the Chains

Shake the Chains

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Quercus Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Shake the Chains protest-song project (featured in #125) was conceived by English folk singer Greg Russell after his university...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2017

Review of Live in Bangalore

Live in Bangalore

Ravi & Anoushka Shankar

East Meets West

Rating: ★★★★

Performing in Bangalore in February 2012 (around ten months before his death) Ravi Shankar is on top form here, alongside...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: December/2015

Review of Courage

Courage

Mamadou Diabate

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

Malian kora (harp-lute) player Mamadou Diabate is still only in his mid-30s but has racked up a stack of excellent...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Dilyn Afon

Dilyn Afon

Cynefin

Astar Artes

Rating: ★★★★

Cynefin is the recording name of West Wales trip-hop-and-jazz-player-turned-folk-musician Owen Shiers. The title translates as ‘Following a River’ and takes...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2020

Review of December Moon

December Moon

The Henry Girls

Henry Girls

Rating: ★★★

If you’ve a weak spot for sweet vocal harmonies, pop hooks and a soft musical bedding-down in the folk traditions...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2013

Review of Nant

Nant

Poeji

Squama

Rating: ★★★★

At once calming and unsettling, meditative yet intentionally disquieting, this debut work by new collaboration Poeji gets under your skin...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2024

Review of Aboriginal Soul

Aboriginal Soul

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Nascente NSCD120

Rating: ★★★★

Compiled by UK-based Aussie music j ournalist Jane Cornwell, Aboriginal Soul is an excellent selec tion of fairly recent tracks...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2010

Review of Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits

Omara Portuondo

Son Records 170401

Rating: ★★★

This is a compilation to embrace, a beautifully varied album of relatively unknown material by veteran Cuban singer Omara Portuondo....

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: July/2010

Review of Taranta Container

Taranta Container

Nidi D'Arac

Tarantulae

Rating: ★★★

Led by Lecce-born singer and author Alessandro Coppola, Nidi d'Arac have mingled traditional repertoires from Salento in south-east Italy with...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: July/2011

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