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Review of Some Strange Country

Some Strange Country

Crooked Still

Top of the World

Signature Sounds

Rating: ★★★★★

Crooked Still, the most exciting bluegrass bandcurrently on the American scene, are a groupof five who met at the music...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: March/2011

Review of You Etched Your Face in Mine

You Etched Your Face in Mine

Tárkány Müvek

PANKK

Rating: ★★★

There seems to be a bit of a boom in the Hungarian folk scene right now, with some interesting new...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Jūrėse

Jūrėse

Saulius Petreikis

Saulės Muzika

Rating: ★★★

With its New Agey, Celtic feel, at times Jūrėse (meaning ‘In the Lagoon’, referencing his home region) sounds almost like...

Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of Duo

Duo

Ahmet Aslan & Kemal Dinç

Kalan Müzik

Rating: ★★★★

Ahmet Aslan, born in Dersim – an eastern Turkish province sadly best known for a 1937 Kurdish uprising and its...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2018

Review of Dubcatcher 2: Wicked My Yout

Dubcatcher 2: Wicked My Yout

DJ Vadim

Soulbeats Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Russian-born, New York-based DJ Vadim returns with another fast-paced reggae volume under the pseudonym Dubcatcher, this time pulling in...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2016

Review of Aimez Ces Airs

Aimez Ces Airs

DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson

Hot Casa Records

Rating: ★★★★

Now this album could well be lighting up summer 2019; its mix of Afrobeat rhythms and reggae vocals – with...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2019

Review of The New Faith

The New Faith

Jake Blount

Top of the World

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

Following his impressive 2020 debut album, Spider Tales (reviewed in October 2020, #161), The New Faith fulfils the promise of...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2022

Review of Helen Nkume & Her Young Timers Band

Helen Nkume & Her Young Timers Band

Helen Nkume

Dig This Way Records

Rating: ★★★

Helen Nkume was approaching her thirties when she began her musical career in the early 1970s. Before the decade was...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2023

Review of Raixes

Raixes

Tuzeint

Extra Soul Perception / Worldwide Records

Rating: ★★★

Just a few hours drive south from the Texan border, the Mexican city of Monterrey already has a reputation for...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2023

Review of Tora

Tora

GRAIU

GRAIU

Rating: ★★★

Many have drawn the link between the blues of the American south and the ‘blues’ of the Balkans. GRAIU takes...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: July/2023

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