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Review of Feast Frost Bites

Feast Frost Bites

Belshazzar’s

Wild Goose Records WGS366CD

Rating: ★★★

Pauls Hutchinson and Sartin return with a festive offering of carols and tunes to see us through yuletide. The result...

Reviewed by Andy Letcher in issue: Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Couteau / Haute Forme

Couteau / Haute Forme

Super Parquet

Top of the World

Airfono Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Super Parquet command the confluence of Auvergnat folk, art and club music, creating their own unique sound flow. This follow-up...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2022

Review of SUBHA

SUBHA

Roopa Panesar

Top of the World

Asian Arts Agency

Rating: ★★★★

Sitar player Roopa Panesar is certainly one of the most important musicians to have emerged in the British Asian diaspora...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2022

Review of I am a Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100

I am a Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

Buddemusic

Rating: ★★★★

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth, I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 is a diverse and fascinating...

Reviewed by Devon Leger in issue: August/September/2023

Review of Heavy Combination 1966–2007

Heavy Combination 1966–2007

Joseph Kamaru

Disciples

Rating: ★★★★

When Kenyan singer and activist Joseph Kamaru passed away in 2018, his grandson (also named Joseph Kamaru) felt an urgent...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: January/2026

Review of The Art of Improvisation

The Art of Improvisation

Hariprasad Chaurasia

Top of the World

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★★★

One of the essential resources for Indian classical music is The Raga Guide, published in 1999 by Nimbus Records. It...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2011

Review of Horizon Unlimited

Horizon Unlimited

The Lijadu Sisters

Numero Group

Rating: ★★★★★

There’s no question that the world needed this beloved 1979 album by Nigeria’s twin Lijadu Sisters back in the spotlight....

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: November/2024

Review of Goldenwings

Goldenwings

Opa

Jazz Dispensary

Rating: ★★★

In #197, I reviewed a reissue of Opa’s abortive first album. With Airto Moreira, the Uruguayan Fattoruso brothers re-recorded for...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2024

Review of Soma

Soma

John McSherry

Compass 745382

Rating: ★★★★

The Belfast uilleann piper John McSherry sprang to fame with the band Tamalin in the 1990s, before moving on to...

Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: July/2010

Review of Gi Mi Pols!

Gi Mi Pols!

Mjelva/Tamnes

Talik Records

Rating: ★★★

Having each been raised in distinct traditions within the Røros region of central Norway, Ole Jorgen Tamnes in the Brekken...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2012

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