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Review of Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars

Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars

Yorkston/Thorne/Khan

Domino Records

Rating: ★★★

Last year the sarangi player Suhail Yusuf Khan, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist James Yorkston and double bass player Jon Thorne...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2017

Review of Le QuecumBar International Gypsy Swing Guitar Festival

Le QuecumBar International Gypsy Swing Guitar Festival

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Le Q Records

Rating: ★★★

Situated in a pub on a sidestreet in Battersea, Le QuecumBar is the UK’s leading – perhaps only – venue...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Pa Mi Tres

Pa Mi Tres

Yarima Blanco

Egrem

Rating: ★★★★

Yarima Blanco won the De la Tradición Sonera y Campesina (From the Son and Country Tradition) award at last year's...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2023

Review of Rebetiko Gymnastas

Rebetiko Gymnastas

Vinicio Capossela

Top of the World

La Cupa/Ponderosa

Rating: ★★★★

Last hard being lured to his demise by the call of a siren at the climax of his album Marinai,...

Reviewed by David Hutcheon in issue: March/2013

Review of Luso Noir – Music from Portuguese Speaking Africa

Luso Noir – Music from Portuguese Speaking Africa

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Piranha

Rating: ★★★★

Whether it's the folk of Madredeus, the samba of Chico Buarque or the manifold rhythms and cadences of Lusitanian Africa,...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: October/2011

Review of Sones Jarochos y Huastecos y Más

Sones Jarochos y Huastecos y Más

Hermanos Herrera

Top of the World

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Everybody knows at least one son jarocho, even if they don’t realise it, and chances are they heard it while...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2018

Review of Godless Ceremony

Godless Ceremony

Islandman

Music for Dreams

Rating: ★★★

Islandman supplies slick multi-layered atmospheric down-tempo electronica with an ethno touch. Featuring musicians from all over the globe, the title...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: November/2021

Review of Jola: Hidden Gnawa Music in Brussels

Jola: Hidden Gnawa Music in Brussels

Jola

Muziekpublique

Rating: ★★★

A label, venue, and performing arts foundation, Muziekpublique's latest release focuses on Brussels’ population of Gnawa musicians, which numbers some...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2020

Review of Amerika

Amerika

Dimitris Mystakidis

Fishbowl Records

Rating: ★★★

Music professor and folk guitar virtuoso Dimitris Mystakidis has been performing, teaching and writing books about rebetika for over two...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: August/2017

Review of This is Broken Folk

This is Broken Folk

Lunatraktors

Broken Folk Records

Rating: ★★★

Percussionist, tap dancer and performance artist Carli Jefferson toured internationally with the physical theatre group Stomp, before meeting non-binary singer...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

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