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Review of Get Out While You Can

Get Out While You Can

Dan Sultan

Independent/MGM SUL002

Rating: ★★★★

Aside from the singing phenomenon Gurrumul, Australia’s hottest indigenous musician these days is Dan Sultan. With an Irish father and...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: July/2010

Review of Ansonia Records Presents – Salsa Con Estilo – Dance Floor Gems from the Vaults: 1950s-1980s

Ansonia Records Presents – Salsa Con Estilo – Dance Floor Gems from the Vaults: 1950s-1980s

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ansonia Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Even better, certainly in terms of scope, is Ansonia Records Presents – Salsa Con Estilo –Dance Floor Gems from the...

Reviewed by in issue: June/2024

Review of Tomorrow Held

Tomorrow Held

Spafford Campbell

Top of the World

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Opening with minimal, subliminal guitar, very quiet and very still, an expressive fiddle soon eases in, the two shapeshifting around...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: September/2025

Review of Bahia Com H

Bahia Com H

Maria de Fátima

Altercat

Rating: ★★★

Perhaps because she worked alongside the likes of Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil and Milton Nascimento – among other Brazilian greats –...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2022

Review of New Music for the 12 String Guitar

New Music for the 12 String Guitar

Toby Hay

The State51 Conspiracy

Rating: ★★★

In the early 60s, when stereo was a novelty, record labels released demonstration albums introducing listeners to the wonderful world...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of A Universe That Roasts Blossoms for a Horse

A Universe That Roasts Blossoms for a Horse

Širom

tak:til

Rating: ★★★

The first track on Širom's A Universe that Roasts Blossoms for a Horse sounds like an intro to an adventurous...

Reviewed by Agnieszka Ujma in issue: November/2019

Review of RDS-202

RDS-202

KermesZ à l'Est

KermesZ à I''Est

Rating: ★★★★

KermesZ à l'Est are not only the wildest Balkan band in Belgium, but probably on the planet. I first encountered...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2020

Review of The Tokyo Concert

The Tokyo Concert

Astor Piazzolla

Milan

Rating: ★★★★

This stunning live album of Astor Piazzolla was recorded at Tokyo’s Shibuya Kokaido theatre on November 21, 1982, at the...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2012

Review of Peter’s Field

Peter’s Field

Sean Cooney with Eliza Carthy, Sam Carter & Jennifer Reid

Alimentation / Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★★★

Sean Cooney has got form. As one part of the Teesside trio, The Young’uns, he has built a reputation for...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2026

Review of The Works

The Works

Spiers & Boden

Navigator Records

Rating: ★★★★

John Spiers and Jon Boden are best-known now as the musical masterminds at the heart of folk-burlesque big-band Bellowhead. They...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2011

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