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Review of At Dawn of Day

At Dawn of Day

Barluath

Barluath Recordings

Rating: ★★★

At Dawn of Day, the second album from Barluath, a still-fresh, still-developing new addition to the Scots music scene, is...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2015

Review of Recanto

Recanto

Gal Costa

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★★

Almost half a century after Gal Costa first teamed up with him, Recanto sees Caetano Veloso taking her back to...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2012

Review of Walsh & Pound

Walsh & Pound

Walsh & Pound

Rooksmere Records

Rating: ★★★★

In these uninspiring times, in which Autotune software retains a strange stranglehold over popular music, Walsh & Pound might seem...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2011

Review of Öptüm

Öptüm

Sezen Aksu

Top of the World

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

Sezen Aksu is routinely hailed as the ‘Queen of Turkish Pop’. But it's a tag that grossly underplays her talent...

Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: October/2011

Review of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett

Top of the World

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Emerging from The Gloaming's five-strong fold, Hardanger d'amore player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and pianist Thomas Bartlett have struck of to...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2019

Review of Awakening

Awakening

Yungchen Lhamo

Top of the World

Tibetan Arts Management/Six Degrees Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Tibetan singer and composer has been in exile from her birth land for over 30 years. Awakening is her...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: May/2022

Review of Weave

Weave

Jaywalkers

Root Beat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Jaywalkers are a young trio from Rochdale and Cheshire, not hitherto known for being crucibles of bluegrass music. Jay Bradberry...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2015

Review of Guzo

Guzo

Samuel Yirga

Top of the World

Real World

Rating: ★★★★

It's not often that one is greeted by such a strong debut, so effortlessly shot through with intelligence and creativity....

Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of Lux

Lux

Afenginn

Westpark Music

Rating: ★★★

The group Afenginn comprises Kim Rafael Nyberg, a Finnish composer, and a collection of Danish musicians. They are working in...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

Review of Opus

Opus

Afenginn

Westpark Music 2 CDs

Rating: ★★★

While on tour in Australia, Finnish-born Copenhagen-based Kim Rafael Nyberg, Afenginn's frontman and composer, suffered an accident that left him...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2017

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