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Review of Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Vol 1

Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Vol 1

The Ninetree Stumblers

Nanny State Records

Rating: ★★★

Take a cursory glance at Complete Recorded Works and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was the latest release from...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Mai

Mai

Georgia Ruth

Bubblewrap Collective

Rating: ★★★★

The Aberystwyth singer-songwriter released her debut, Week of Pines, back in 2013, and it won her the Welsh Music Prize...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2020

Review of Draft

Draft

Hairetis Harper

Same Difference Music

Rating: ★★★★

Despite growing up in the small town of Anogia on the island of Crete, also home to such famous Greek...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: May/2021

Review of Liga Latina

Liga Latina

Liga Latina

Multination

Rating: ★★★★

Liga Latina have been described as ‘a European supergroup.’ Well, they're a quintet of Scandinavian musicians steeped in Latin and...

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

Review of Solonaïves/Sculptures with GAD

Solonaïves/Sculptures with GAD

Solorazaf

Top of the World

Acoustic Music Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Solo Razafindrakoto (aka Solorazaf) is a guitarist from Madagascar. This album confirms that he is an absolute master. The first...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Rey Loj

Rey Loj

Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna

Petit Indie

Rating: ★★★★

Chilean singer-songwriter Pascuala Ilabaca dances lightly around Chilean musical styles, mixing them with Indian forms she picked up while studying...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2016

Review of BIM#1

BIM#1

Bénin International Musical

Top of the World

World Tour Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Kicking off with an attention-grabbing holler before skittering into Afrobeat on the opening track ‘Destiny’, this fabulous debut showcases Benin's...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2019

Review of Mirrormouth

Mirrormouth

Branwen

Branwen

Rating: ★★★★

Irish singer, composer, performance artist and puppeteer, Branwen Kavanagh's Mirrormouth shepherds us through a pensive, wistful landscape. Surrealism – both...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: September/2025

Review of New Sound of the Middle East

New Sound of the Middle East

Hagai Bilitzky

Top of the World

Cruvit Records

Rating: ★★★★

The album title certainly makes a brave claim, but in many ways the music lives up to it, for Hagai...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2023

Review of Les Nomades du Niger: Fulanis, Bororos & Touaregs

Les Nomades du Niger: Fulanis, Bororos & Touaregs

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Frémeaux & Associés

Rating: ★★

Here's a quaint item. In the mid-70s the ethnomusicologist François Jouffa compiled some recordings made in Niger by a certain...

Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

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