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Review of Talea

Talea

Paolo Angeli

ReR Megacorp

Rating: ★★★★

This enormous, virtuosic set is a collage from Paolo Angeli's solo dates – over 60 of them – performed across...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: October/2017

Review of Nagham Fi Hayati

Nagham Fi Hayati

Farid El Atrache

We Want Sounds

Rating: ★★★★★

Born in Syria in 1910, Farid El Atrache was an icon of 20th-century Arab music and culture. Having moved to...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: April/2023

Review of Celebration of a Legend

Celebration of a Legend

George Telek

Top of the World

Wantok Musik

Rating: ★★★★

Following his 1970s and 80s involvement with several local Melanesian string bands and the popular Papuan rock group Painim Wok,...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of All of This Is Chance

All of This Is Chance

Lisa O’Neill

Top of the World

Rough Trade Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Fresh from signing off Peaky Blinders with a cover of Bob Dylan's ‘All the Tired Horses’, O’Neill returns to her...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2023

Review of Traditional Greenlandic Music Vol 1-5 (1906-1989)

Traditional Greenlandic Music Vol 1-5 (1906-1989)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

ULO (5 CDs)

Rating: ★★★★

This impressive edition was compiled by the ethnomusicologist Michael Hauser and Karsten Sommer, a well-known figure in Greenland's music industry....

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2016

Review of Simultaneous Flight Movement

Simultaneous Flight Movement

Laura Cannell

Brawl Records

Rating: ★★★★

One musician, a violin, a recorder and a lighthouse are hardly the typical ingredients of an album. Laura Cannell's Simultaneous...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2017

Review of Mali Foli Coura

Mali Foli Coura

BKO

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★

This appears to be a studio session, cut live without overdubs or technical tampering. It's a fierce modern take on...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Review of Long Time… Seldom Scene

Long Time… Seldom Scene

The Seldom Scene

Smithsonian Folkways

Rating: ★★★

After four decades, The Seldom Scene is a band showing no signs of wavering enthusiasm or wandering from their chosen...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of North Cape

North Cape

Nic Zuppardi

North Cape Records

Rating: ★★★

The name Nic Zuppardi may be unfamiliar but this master of the mandolin has, for over a decade, been part...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2023

Review of Andy Irvine/Paul Brady

Andy Irvine/Paul Brady

Andy Irvine & Paul Brady

Mulligan Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Not quite the first reissue as claimed by publicity (a 2008 CD having beaten it to the punch), but a...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2022

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