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Review of A Tiempo Real

A Tiempo Real

Vigüela

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

Poetry ripples through this album of traditional Spanish songs from Toledo-based ensemble Vigüela. It's in the song titles – ‘The...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2018

Review of Chicago Barn Dance

Chicago Barn Dance

Special Consensus

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★

It's safe to say that every country music fan has heard of the Grand Ole Opry. What few people know...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2020

Review of Travesía

Travesía

Gerardo Núñez

ACT

Rating: ★★

Gerardo Núñez's infrequent albums have offered persuasive evidence that he is one of the contemporary flamenco guitarists most fluent in...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: October/2012

Review of Syzygy

Syzygy

Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas

Culburnie Records

Rating: ★★★

Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser and his longtime musical partner, Californian cellist Natalie Haas, released their first set as a duo...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2021

Review of The Dancing Devils of Djibouti

The Dancing Devils of Djibouti

Groupe RTD

Top of the World

Ostinato Records

Rating: ★★★★★

World music has woken up to the wondrous delights of Somali music over the past few years through reissues of...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Cha Cha Cha

Cha Cha Cha

Abelardo Barroso with Orquesta Sensación

Top of the World

World Circuit

Rating: ★★★★

Before achieving its great success with releasing new artists and albums, the World Circuit label excelled at licensing and re-releasing...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Delight

Delight

Arushi Jain

Top of the World

Leaving Records

Rating: ★★★★★

With 2021’s Under the Lilac Sky, Arushi Jain announced herself as a gifted alchemist of electronica and Hindustani music through...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2024

Review of Vidrio

Vidrio

Titanic

Unheard of Hope

Rating: ★★★★

If the notion of Mexican jazz is fairly obscure to Western ears, it’s not until ‘Hotel Elizabeth’, the final track...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2023

Review of Old Juniper

Old Juniper

The Down Hill Strugglers

Top of the World

Jalopy Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Appalachian-style trio The Down Hill Strugglers return with their first album since the passing of founding member John Cohen....

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: September/2024

Review of Latem (Summertime)

Latem (Summertime)

WoWaKin & Guests

Baba Studio

Rating: ★★★★

WoWaKin are a Polish trio playing violin, three-row accordion and drums with all the verve and vivacity of a village...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2024

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