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Review of Feast Frost Bites

Feast Frost Bites

Belshazzar’s

Wild Goose Records WGS366CD

Rating: ★★★

Pauls Hutchinson and Sartin return with a festive offering of carols and tunes to see us through yuletide. The result...

Reviewed by Andy Letcher in issue: Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Couteau / Haute Forme

Couteau / Haute Forme

Super Parquet

Top of the World

Airfono Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Super Parquet command the confluence of Auvergnat folk, art and club music, creating their own unique sound flow. This follow-up...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2022

Review of SUBHA

SUBHA

Roopa Panesar

Top of the World

Asian Arts Agency

Rating: ★★★★

Sitar player Roopa Panesar is certainly one of the most important musicians to have emerged in the British Asian diaspora...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2022

Review of Goldenwings

Goldenwings

Opa

Jazz Dispensary

Rating: ★★★

In #197, I reviewed a reissue of Opa’s abortive first album. With Airto Moreira, the Uruguayan Fattoruso brothers re-recorded for...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2024

Review of Soma

Soma

John McSherry

Compass 745382

Rating: ★★★★

The Belfast uilleann piper John McSherry sprang to fame with the band Tamalin in the 1990s, before moving on to...

Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: July/2010

Review of Gi Mi Pols!

Gi Mi Pols!

Mjelva/Tamnes

Talik Records

Rating: ★★★

Having each been raised in distinct traditions within the Røros region of central Norway, Ole Jorgen Tamnes in the Brekken...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2012

Review of Their First Album

Their First Album

Incredible String Band

Fledg''ling Records FLED 3077

Rating: ★★★★★

The first four albums by the Incredible String Band summon up the spirit of the far side of the 60s...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2010

Review of Zozodinga

Zozodinga

Abdallah Oumbadougou

Original Dub Master

Rating: ★★★

One of the founding fathers of Touareg ishumar music, or desert blues in European marketing-speak, Oumbadougou returns with his first...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of The Rounder Records Story

The Rounder Records Story

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Rounder Records

Rating: ★★★

The moral of the Rounder Records ‘story’ is that a record label devoted mostly to contemporary takes on traditional music...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2011

Review of Jamm

Jamm

Cheikh Lô

Top of the World

World Circuit 084

Rating: ★★★★

Albums by Cheikh Lô are rare enough to make them seem like events rather than mere record releases and Jamm...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

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