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Review of Greater Jamaica

Greater Jamaica

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Cherry Red Records

Rating: ★★★★

Producer Duke Reid's compilation advertises ‘Reggay at its best’ – that's reggae circa 1969, as connoisseurs will note from the...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2019

Review of Harmonograph

Harmonograph

False Lights

Wreckord label

Rating: ★★★★

A big welcome back to Sam Carter and Jim Moray, whose debut album under the guise of False Lights, Salvor,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2018

Review of Between Us…

Between Us…

Anoushka Shankar & Metropole Orkest with Jules Buckley & Manu Delago

Leiter/BMG

Rating: ★★★

Sitarist Anoushka Shankar here joins forces with the Netherlands-based Metropole Orkest and handpan performer Manu Delago on a purely instrumental...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Kamalamba

Kamalamba

Raphaëlle Brochet & Philippe Aerts

Igloo

Rating: ★★

Stripping back an arrangement to just bass and voice can make for a spellbinding moment of intimacy. Kamalamba is an...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: March/2018

Review of Nādī

Nādī

Guy Buttery

Top of the World

Guy Buttery

Rating: ★★★★

Over a series of impressive solo albums, the guitarist Guy Buttery has established himself as a major force in South...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2020

Review of I Dreamt I Was a Bird

I Dreamt I Was a Bird

Lucy Ward

Betty Beetroot

Rating: ★★★★

The Derby folk singer's third album follows the politically engaged Single Flame and builds on the traditional and original songs...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2015

Review of The Holy Coming of the Storm

The Holy Coming of the Storm

Cahalen Morrison & Eli West

Morrison & West

Rating: ★★★★

A musical duo that met in Seattle just a year and a half ago, Morrison and West have quickly formed...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: July/2011

Review of Wick to Wickham

Wick to Wickham

Gordon Gunn

Greentrax Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Best known as a member of the fiddle-led supergroup Session A9, Scottish fiddler and composer Gordon Gunn has not recorded...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: December/2015

Review of The Roaring Whirl

The Roaring Whirl

Sarah Rodgers

Métier

Rating: ★★★

The conceit of this disc is to take readings from Kipling's Kim and juxtapose them against a musical interpretation of...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2020

Review of The Rough Guide to a World of Psychedelia

The Rough Guide to a World of Psychedelia

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

This sampler is a bountiful taster for World Music Network's ongoing series of global psychedelic compilations, skipping madly from land...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2016

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