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Review of Chants of India

Chants of India

Ravi Shankar | Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan

HariSongs DIGITAL ONLY

Rating: ★★★

HariSongs is a new label set up to re-release some of the music in the family archive of the late...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Review of Through That Sound (My Secret Was Made Known)

Through That Sound (My Secret Was Made Known)

Eliza Carthy and Ben Seal

Hem Hem Records

Rating: ★★★★

A seagull's head on dancer's legs – not at all disturbing or Hieronymous Bosch-like – is artist Kirsty Whiten's cover...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2020

Review of Five Albums

Five Albums

Natacha Atlas

Beggars Archive

Rating: ★★★★★

In recent years Natacha Atlas has significantly changed musical direction and now stands on the threshold of venerable diva status....

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

Review of Echo

Echo

Ben Walker

Top of the World

Folkroom Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Ben Walker is hailed as one of the world's finest acoustic guitarists, for the half dozen brilliant albums he made...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2019

Review of Undercurrent

Undercurrent

Sarah Jarosz

Sugar Hill Records

Rating: ★★★

Accompanied by a line-up different from her familiar touring trio of recent years, Sarah Jarosz offers Undercurrent, which serves as...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Native American Flute

Native American Flute

VARIOUS ARTISTS

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Native American flute music has enjoyed a vast popularity ever since R Carlos Nakai first began recording in the 1980s...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2016

Review of To Know Without Knowing

To Know Without Knowing

Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience

Agogo Records

Rating: ★★★★

This is the second album that Mulatu Astatke, one of the fathers of Ethio-jazz, has recorded with ‘BJX’, the 12-piece...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Dernier Appel

Dernier Appel

Tiken Jah Fakoly

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★

The singer Tiken Jah Fakoly is next in line to Alpha Blondy on the somewhat specialised Ivory Coast reggae scene,...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2014

Review of Calico Soul

Calico Soul

Farafi

Piranha

Rating: ★★★

The magic of like minds, especially musical ones, is that they often seem to meet serendipitously, and nowhere more so...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2020

Review of Drifters & Vagabonds

Drifters & Vagabonds

Black Market Tune

Galileo Music

Rating: ★★★

With one foot in Scotland, the other in Austria and a few other limbs in Sweden and Vienna, Black Market...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

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