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Review of A Black & Tan Ball

A Black & Tan Ball

Ben Hunter, Phil Wiggins & Joe Seamons

Ben Joe Music

Rating: ★★★★

This may not be a concert recording, but it has all the spontaneity, intimacy and magic of a great gig:...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: May/2017

Review of Birds and Beasts: Music by Martyn Bennett & Fraser Fifield

Birds and Beasts: Music by Martyn Bennett & Fraser Fifield

Mr McFall’s Chamber

Top of the World

Delphian DCD34085

Rating: ★★★★

Regarded as one of the most innovative Scottish musicians of his time on the back of albums such as 1998...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Together

Together

Talvin Singh & Niladri Kumar

Top of the World

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

The Mercury Music Prize – arguably Britain's premier album award – has a reputation for destroying rather than making careers....

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2011

Review of Zoot!

Zoot!

The Grass Mountain Hobos

Grass Mountain Hobos

Rating: ★★

The prose of their website links this new sextet from Prince Edward Island with ‘a time when pleasure usurped profession...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Small Island Big Song

Small Island Big Song

Small Island Big Song

Top of the World

Small Island

Rating: ★★★★★

A little idea that's grown into a large project, Small Island Big Song is the brainchild of Australian sound producer...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2018

Review of Banda Dois

Banda Dois

Gilberto Gil

Warner Music 256468258

Rating: ★★★★

Having quit formal politics and swapped President Lula and Brasilia for a return to the international circuit, Gil presents us...

Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: July/2010

Review of Beyond the Blue

Beyond the Blue

Brain Damage meets Big Youth

Jarring Effects

Rating: ★★★★

Jamaican toasting legend Big Youth collaborates here with travelling French producers Brain Damage and Sam Clayton Jr in a heady...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sep/2021

Review of QAF

QAF

Ghawgha

OK World Records

Rating: ★★★

This record gives voice to the stories and sentiments of the dislocated. Ghawgha fled her native Afghanistan, undertaking an odyssey...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: February/March/2025

Review of Quachatta

Quachatta

Samech

Tzadik Records

Rating: ★★★

This Polish-Jewish four-piece takes its name from the Hebrew letter Samec, a circle that represents infinity. The band’s website tells...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of Dubber Side Of The Moon

Dubber Side Of The Moon

Easy Star All Stars

Easy Star

Rating: ★★★★

Whether it's well-lubricated rednecks taking the tools of bluegrass to the songs of AC/DC or Frencheasy-listening sophisticates smoothing the corners...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

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