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Review of Coat-Tails Flying

Coat-Tails Flying

John Kirkpatrick

Fledg''ling Records

Rating: ★★★★

Being able to play just about any kind of music on any kind of squeezebox (with buttons, that is), John...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2017

Review of A Year of Swimming

A Year of Swimming

Derek Gripper

New Cape Records Digital Only

Rating: ★★★★★

From the off, the latest release from the incredible instrumentalist drops you into his utterly unique African guitar cosmos. For...

Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: May/2020

Review of Bumblin’ Creed

Bumblin’ Creed

Padang Food Tigers & Sigbjørn Apeland

Northern Spy Records

Rating: ★★★

Padang Food Tigers operate a craft industry in ambient sound-worlds. Bumblin’ Creed is the third full album to emerge from...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2016

Review of In Trad We Trust

In Trad We Trust

Sväng

Top of the World

Galileo

Rating: ★★★★

This irrepressible Finnish harmonica quartet have delighted and astonished us for 17 years, producing eight albums ranging music from Sibelius...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: January/2021

Review of Crossover

Crossover

Emma Donovan & The Putbacks

Hope Street Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

A mainstay of the Australian indigenous music scene over the last 20 years, singer Emma Donovan grew up in a...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: April/2021

Review of Bless Up

Bless Up

Ernest Ranglin & Avila

Avila Street

Rating: ★★★

The veteran Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin helped to give birth to reggae, playing on early recordings that defined the genre...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of We've Come Along

We've Come Along

Mark Lavengood

Earthwork Music

Rating: ★★★

The latest release by resonator guitar and lap steel specialist Mark Lavengood, a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, showcases his...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2018

Review of Sound Therapy

Sound Therapy

Manjul meets FX & YVO

Baco Records

Rating: ★★★★

French multi-instrumentalist, singer and producer Julien Souletie has been working under the name Manjul from his own Humble Ark Studio...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2022

Review of Esteesee

Esteesee

Ange Hardy

Story Records

Rating: ★★★★

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the greats of English literature – a founding poet of 19th-century Romanticism. Apparently he...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2016

Review of Éthiopiques 29: Mastawesha

Éthiopiques 29: Mastawesha

Daniel Techane | Kassa Tessema

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

These two latest releases from Buda are in some respects polar opposites, though connected by a common theme. One is...

Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: October/2014

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