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Review of Womama

Womama

Djeli Moussa Condé

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

Hailing from Guinea, living in Paris and with spiritual roots in Mali and Gambia, Djeli Moussa Condé's experience is one...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2015

Review of Alborotá

Alborotá

Alea

Alea Music

Rating: ★★★

Alborotá (meaning loud, rowdy, riotous in the feminine form) is an album created to explore notions of strength, perseverance, feminism...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: November/2021

Review of Dúchas

Dúchas

Damien O'Reilly

Raelach Records

Rating: ★★★★

Button accordionist O'Reilly stays close to home in his first solo outing on disc with material drawn from his native...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2020

Review of House of Jacks

House of Jacks

Blair Dunlop

Rooksmere Records

Rating: ★★★★

Frontman for the Albion Band and winner of a BBC Radio 2 Horizon Folk Award in 2013, Dunlop brings a...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2014

Review of Come With Me

Come With Me

Dana Immanuel & the Stolen Band

Dana Immanuel

Rating: ★★★

“Dana Immanuel… isn’t she that trans singer that won the Eurovision Song Contest a while back?” “No Mum, that would...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2016

Review of Every Little Spirit

Every Little Spirit

Marcus Corbett

Marco Records

Rating: ★

Another reviewer has written that this disc is ‘perfect Sunday morning music’: this is a very astute observation, but the...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2016

Review of Africa Moo Baalu

Africa Moo Baalu

Sousou & Maher Cissoko

ARC Music

Rating: ★★

Africa Moo Baalu means ‘Big People of Africa,’ and the album effectively reads as an open letter to leaders in...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2014

Review of Many a Thousand

Many a Thousand

Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith

Top of the World

Many a Thousand Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This third studio album from the Norfolk-born folk duo follows their impressive 2016 release, Night Hours. It contains all the...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2018

Review of Tall Ships and Tavern Tales

Tall Ships and Tavern Tales

The Exmouth Shanty Men

WildGoose Studios

Rating: ★★★

This double album of songs from their two-part stage show of the same name is described by Devon’s self-styled ‘original...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2022

Review of Tudo

Tudo

Joyce Moreno

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

The artist formerly known as Joyce has been recording for over 40 years. Antonio Carlos Jobim has called her ‘one...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2013

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