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Review of Quinto

Quinto

Antonio Zambujo

Top of the World

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

Little by little, Antonio Zambujo has been expanding his musical universe up to the point where it doesn't really matter...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Classic Celtic Music

Classic Celtic Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Smithsonian Folkways

Rating: ★

Any compilation album with ‘Celtic’ in its title is almost certainly worth avoiding, though there are notable exceptions – Ellipsis...

Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: July/2013

Review of Caravan of Mugham Melodies

Caravan of Mugham Melodies

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

The opening piece on this disc, ‘Mugham Beste – Nigar’, is a song about mugham itself, saying that these Arabic...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2013

Review of Borders and Bailes

Borders and Bailes

Los Texmaniacs

Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40555

Rating: ★★★★

There’s no getting away from it, it’s a bad name for a band. But spicing up the genre of conjunto...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2010

Review of Gilles Peterson Presents: Havana Cultura – New Cuba Sound

Gilles Peterson Presents: Havana Cultura – New Cuba Sound

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Top of the World

Brownswood BWOOD038CD

Rating: ★★★★

Clubbers and Cubanophiles alike will leap on this double set from the zeitgeist-riding Gilles Peterson. Financed by Havana Rum and...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2010

Review of An Adventure: 1999-2009

An Adventure: 1999-2009

Mike Marshall

Adventure Music

Rating: ★★★★

Mike Marshall is an itinerant vagabond of a musician, and a Johnny Appleseed of the mandolin. For 30-odd years the...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2011

Review of Deeper in the Well

Deeper in the Well

Eric Bibb

Dixiefrog

Rating: ★★★★

Eric Bibb: son of Leon Bibb, a fixture in the folk revival scene of the 1960s; nephew of John Lewis,...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2012

Review of Tzadik TZ8115

Tzadik TZ8115

Boris Malkovsky Time Petah-Tiqva

Full Price

Rating: ★★★★

Boris Malkovsky is a Russian-trained Israeli master of the bayan (diatonic button accordion) and from the very first bars of...

Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Finesse

Finesse

Evan Christopher’s Django à la Créole

Frémeaux & Associés FA527

Rating: ★★

Evan Christopher is one of the US’s foremost young jazz musicians. Resident in New Orleans, he has worked with musicians...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2010

Review of Take Yo Time

Take Yo Time

Ben Hunter & Joe Seamons

Ben Hunter & Joe Seamons

Rating: ★★★★

Take Yo Time is the first duo album from Ben Hunter (fiddle, vocals) and Joe Seamons (banjo, guitar, vocals) produced...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2015

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