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Review of All of This Is Chance

All of This Is Chance

Lisa O’Neill

Top of the World

Rough Trade Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Fresh from signing off Peaky Blinders with a cover of Bob Dylan's ‘All the Tired Horses’, O’Neill returns to her...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2023

Review of Siku

Siku

Nicola Cruz

ZZK Records

Rating: ★★★

Born in France to Ecuadorian parents, Nicola Cruz is one of a number of producers of recent years who have...

Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: March/2019

Review of Traditional Greenlandic Music Vol 1-5 (1906-1989)

Traditional Greenlandic Music Vol 1-5 (1906-1989)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

ULO (5 CDs)

Rating: ★★★★

This impressive edition was compiled by the ethnomusicologist Michael Hauser and Karsten Sommer, a well-known figure in Greenland's music industry....

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2016

Review of Te Vaka Beats: Vol I

Te Vaka Beats: Vol I

Te Vaka

Spirit of Play

Rating: ★★★★

With ancestral links to the small Pacific islands of Tuvalu and Tokelau, Polynesian group Te Vaka originally formed in New...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2017

Review of A Tribute to Lead Belly

A Tribute to Lead Belly

The Lonnigans Skiffle Group

Lonnigan Records

Rating: ★★★★

The songs of Lead Belly were first popularised in Britain during the skiffle era of the mid-50s, when Lonnie Donegan...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2015

Review of Color de Trópico Vol 3

Color de Trópico Vol 3

VARIOUS ARTISTS

El Palmas Music

Rating: ★★★

Another varied collection from 1960s and 70s Venezuela courtesy of the duo El Drágon Criollo and his partner El Palmas,...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: July/2022

Review of Legado de Carlos Paredes ao Mosteiro dos Jerónimos

Legado de Carlos Paredes ao Mosteiro dos Jerónimos

Alvorada

Museu do Fado

Rating: ★★★

If you are familiar with Portuguese guitar, you should have by now come across the names of Artur and Carlos...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2023

Review of Do You Love

Do You Love

Otava Yo

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Otava Yo are a slightly eccentric Russian folk band from St Petersburg who like to play with the traditions and...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2019

Review of Dhrupad & Khyal

Dhrupad & Khyal

Gopal Krishnan

Top of the World

Ocora/Radio France C561078

Rating: ★★★★★

The veena is one of the oldest Indian musical instruments of the lute family, probably dating back to the first...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2010

Review of A World of Hope

A World of Hope

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Red Grape Music 2 CDs

Rating: ★★★

This double album brings together tracks donated in support of the charity Postcards for Peace – an international organisation that...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2017

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