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Review of Balkan Beats SoundLab

Balkan Beats SoundLab

Robert Soko

Piranha

Rating: ★★★

You can certainly pass a pleasant enough hour listening, dancing or jogging to this. It's a kind of wantonly random...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: March/2013

Review of The Rough Guide to African Roots Revival

The Rough Guide to African Roots Revival

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

One of the keys to success in the competitive compilation market is to find fresh and interesting thematic approaches that...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2012

Review of Reassembled

Reassembled

Bellowhead

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Rambunctious folk big band Bellowhead enjoyed a whirlwind career – playing Glastonbury Festival, winning umpteen awards and occupying London’s Southbank...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2021

Review of From Dust to Light

From Dust to Light

Ariana Tikao

Ode Records

Rating: ★★★★

Four years on from her last ethereal album Tuia, New Zealand singer Ariana Tikao’s latest batch of Original songs is...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Osmosis

Osmosis

Tafahum

Tafahum Records

Rating: ★★★★

The opening track ‘Wiladah’ (perhaps named after the renowned poetess from 11th century Andalusian Córdoba) sounds like Frank Zappa and...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of PBS6

PBS6

PBS6

Victoria Tunnel Mushroom Company VTMCCD002

Rating: ★★★

Hatched by bodhran player Will Lang of folk-fusion group Park Bench Social Club and Newcastle-based guitarist and producer Tom Wright,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2010

Review of Deltu

Deltu

Pevarlamm

Paker Prod

Rating: ★★★★

Deltu (Dynamism) is Breton world music, taking its influences from Brittany to Ireland, from Scotland to Galicia, from ceilidh to...

Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: June/2016

Review of Archangel Hill

Archangel Hill

Shirley Collins

Domino Records

Rating: ★★★★

Close to Shirley Collins’ home in Lewes, Sussex, is Mount Caburn, a hill topped by an Iron Age fort, that...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2023

Review of Maame

Maame

Cheikh Lô

Top of the World

World Circuit Records

Rating: ★★★★

When this reviewer rather recklessly gave up a well-paid staff job as a political correspondent at The Times some 30...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2025

Review of Line-Up

Line-Up

Battlefield Band

Temple Records

Rating: ★★★

Like Fairport Convention, Battle– field Band have a good four decades of music-making behind them, drawing on the rich heritage...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2011

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