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Review of Fados de Amor

Fados de Amor

Rodrigo Costa Félix

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Rodrigo Costa Félix's second album is a compendium of ruminations on women and love. It's a somewhat old-fashioned affair in...

Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: July/2014

Review of Chicken & Egg

Chicken & Egg

Tim O’Brien

Top of the World

Howdy Skies Records HS-CD-1005

Rating: ★★★★

The 13th studio album from one of contemporary America's most prolific, adventurous and adaptable folk/country musicians, Chicken & Egg is...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: October/2010

Review of Gadalokos

Gadalokos

Auļi

Lauska

Rating: ★★★★

Although advertised as a mass bagpipe and drum group, Latvian group Auļi leaven their uncompromising sound with bowed and plucked...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of Dominion

Dominion

Melrose Quartet

Melrose Quartet

Rating: ★★★★

This quartet is the combination of two duos – Nancy Kerr and James Fagan with Richard and Jess Arrowsmith –...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Review of A to Z

A to Z

Atongo Zimba

Atongo Zimba

Rating: ★★★★

This is Atongo Zimba’s first international release after 14 years and he could not have re-entered the musical fray in...

Reviewed by Bram Postumus in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Outra Margem

Outra Margem

Vila Navio

André Coelho Rodrigues

Rating: ★★★

It is a tricky path, the one Vila Navio find themselves exploring: taking Portuguese traditional music and injecting it with...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Review of Elesa

Elesa

Mze Shina

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

A quintet of American, Peruvian, French and Iranian origin, based in Rennes, Brittany, is a pretty odd collective of musicians...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2023

Review of I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn: The Acoustic Sandy Denny

I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn: The Acoustic Sandy Denny

Sandy Denny

Island Records (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★★★

Mick Houghton and Andrew Blatt deserve much credit for conceiving and compiling this set – and for unearthing previously unheard...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Tango de Ruptura

Tango de Ruptura

Astillero

De Puerto 324853411-3

Rating: ★★★

Buenos Aires is full of talented youn g musicians and in recent years, on the back of a rising wave...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2010

Review of The Wind Horse

The Wind Horse

Anda Union

Top of the World

Hohhot Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Anda Union were Songlines ‘ favourite band at WOMAD this summer. From Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia (the part...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

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