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Review of Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay

Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay

Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

There's an almost timeless, specifically British strain of pastoralism conjured on this second collaboration between acoustic guitarists Jim Ghedi (six-string)...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: July/2023

Review of A Brighter Future

A Brighter Future

Johanna Juhola

Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★★

The past century-plus of recorded accordion music in Finland has been dominated by dance music, epitomised by countless polkas and...

Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: January/February/2024

Review of Storm Game

Storm Game

Michael Winograd

Golden Horn Records

Rating: ★★★★

One of the most impressive names to have appeared on the American klezmer scene in recent years has been the...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2013

Review of Mynd

Mynd

Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin

Top of the World

Dragonfly Roots

Rating: ★★★★

Mynd is the apt title of this excellent album, an Old English word meaning both ‘act of commemoration’ and ‘intellect.’...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Amazonia

Amazonia

Finis Africae

em records

Rating: ★★★

Finis Africae is essentially the Spanish multi-instrumentalist Juan A Arteche, flanked by a small team of distinctive collaborators. This reissued...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2016

Review of Homenagem

Homenagem

A Panda do Sol

Sungroove Records

Rating: ★★★

Samba from Berlin? Why not? There has been plenty of choro coming from unexpected places recently, but not so much...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Soley

Soley

Noukilla

Naxos World

Rating: ★★

Soley is the first outing of Noukilla, a six-piece group of Mauritian session musicians living in Shanghai who first got...

Reviewed by Timothy Clarke-Romain in issue: June/2020

Review of Mavra Froudia

Mavra Froudia

Stelios Petrakis, Efrén López & Bijan Chemirani

Musiepoca

Rating: ★★★★

Very slick and polished, imma– culately performed and recorded, and full of dance-like energy, there's nothing to dislike about this...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2011

Review of Inspirar

Inspirar

Danças Ocultas | Danças Ocultas & Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras

Galileo Music

Rating: ★★★★

‘Inspirar’ means ‘to inspire’ in Portuguese – no surprise there, right? And the word takes the same double meaning as...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2025

Review of Vari-Colored Songs

Vari-Colored Songs

Leyla McCalla

Top of the World

Dixie Frog Records

Rating: ★★★★

Although this is Leyla McCalla’s debut record, anyone who’s seen the Carolina Chocolate Drops live will have been warmed by...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

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