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Review of Rearrange My Heart

Rearrange My Heart

Che Apalache

Top of the World

Free Dirt Records

Rating: ★★★★

Little wonder that the celebrated American roots banjo player Béla Fleck was so taken with this pan-American quartet that he...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2020

Review of Song of Lahore

Song of Lahore

The Sachal Ensemble

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★★

It's sad that the conductor of The Sachal Ensemble, Najat Ali, still feels it necessary to state that ‘we will...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Nubes Selva

Nubes Selva

Grecia Albán

Folkalist Records

Rating: ★★★★

Ecuadorian singer Grecia Albán’s first UK release Nubes Selva, which loosely translates as ‘Cloud Jungle’, reinvents traditional Ecuadorian, and South...

Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: August/2025

Review of Spirit Bird

Spirit Bird

Xavier Rudd

Side One Dummy

Rating: ★★★★

He may have been around for a decade, but there is still a youthful urgency to Rudd’s music. He mixes...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2012

Review of Telegrafy

Telegrafy

Banda

Pavian Records

Rating: ★★

Active since 2003, Banda are one of the leading folk bands in Slovakia. This is their fourth album. The six-piece...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2019

Review of Sunbox

Sunbox

Hot Griselda

Studio Trad

Rating: ★★★★

Sunbox, album number three from Netherlands-based trad-rockers Hot Griselda, marks the fired-up foursome's tenth anniversary with all the adrenalised attack...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2019

Review of Lanmou Lanmou

Lanmou Lanmou

Dowdelin

Underdog Records

Rating: ★★★

Dowdelin (a play on the word ‘dawdling’) are a four-piece band based in Lyon, France, whose name is a bit...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: April/2022

Review of Sonho Real

Sonho Real

Flavia Coelho

World Village

Rating: ★★

It's ten years since Flavia Coelho moved from her native Brazil to Paris, where she created a reggae-tinged mixture she...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of Rewilding

Rewilding

Richard Durrant

The Burning Deck

Rating: ★★★

Listening to the third solo album from composer and guitarist Richard Durrant invites in a gentle English pastoral scene. Tours...

Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: January/2021

Review of Collab

Collab

Hamilton de Holanda & Gonzalo Rubalcaba

Sony Music Brazil

Rating: ★★★★

Afro-Cuban pianist Rubalcaba and Brazilian mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda combine to play this impeccable hour of Afro-Cuban and Brazilian jazz,...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: November/2024

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