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Review of Sentimento Popolare

Sentimento Popolare

Camilla Barbarito

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

Camilla Barbarito's musical journey is a rich and meandering one: as a young girl she spent time in Mali, and...

Reviewed by Megan Iacobini de fazio in issue: April/2019

Review of Zukva

Zukva

Divanhana

Top of the World

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

Divanhana were formed in 2009 by a group of students at the Sarajevo Music Academy. Their contemporary instrumentation of brass,...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2016

Review of Temporal Waves

Temporal Waves

Temporal Waves

Linear Fade Records/People Places Records

Rating: ★★★

Canadian tabla player Shawn Mativetsky has performed and recorded across many genres for the past 25 years, but this is...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: August/2024

Review of Apparitions

Apparitions

The Drystones

Shedbuilt Records

Rating: ★★★★

A significant change of tack from the Drystones' last album, Apparitions really showcases the multi-instrumental talents of this exciting young...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2019

Review of Seljord anno 1935

Seljord anno 1935

Per Anders Buen Garnås

Ta:lik

Rating: ★★★

When fiddler and writer Per Anders Buen Garnås, son of the famous singer Agnes Buen Garnås, added to his already...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2012

Review of Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band

Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band

Khun Narin

Innovative Leisure

Rating: ★★★

Khun Narin is the latest band to emerge from Thailand's north-east region, Isan, following the popularity of numerous YouTube uploads...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Fu Chronicles

Fu Chronicles

Antibalas

Top of the World

Daptone Records

Rating: ★★★★

This isn't your average Afrobeat album; this one explores not only messages of black power and equality, but also the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2020

Review of Nobody Knows You

Nobody Knows You

Steep Canyon Rangers

Rounder

Rating: ★★★

One thing that quickly becomes apparent about the Steep Canyon Rangers is that they don’t quite have the degree of...

Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: October/2012

Review of All It Brings

All It Brings

Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira

Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira

Rating: ★★★★

All It Brings begins with fiddler Jocelyn Pettit step dancing in that familiar cantering cadence of Scots-Irish-French origin that Canadians...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2022

Review of MM3

MM3

Metá Metá

Jazz Village

Rating: ★★★★

It's slightly disappointing that this São Paulo four-piece's third album opens with a brooding Joy Division-style chord progression that then...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: December/2016

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