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Review of Suku: Your Life is Your Poem

Suku: Your Life is Your Poem

Nils Kercher

Ancient Pulse Records

Rating: ★★★★

German multi-instrumentalist Nils Kercher's second studio album is an international affair. His ensemble is made up of musicians from Mali,...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: October/2016

Review of The Pendulum Swing

The Pendulum Swing

Katherine Priddy

Cooking Vinyl

Rating: ★★★★★

Katherine Priddy’s sophomore set is an intimate, emotive, interconnected album of tableaux that encompasses the past, and past loves, and...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2024

Review of The Beautiful & the Actual

The Beautiful & the Actual

Rosie Hood

RootBeat Records

Rating: ★★★

This debut from the Wiltshire folk singer reveals something of a folk trend towards strong female singer-songwriters with illuminating and...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2017

Review of A Föld Hátán, S Az Ég Alatt (Székelyföldi Népzene Az Elmúlt 120 Évből)

A Föld Hátán, S Az Ég Alatt (Székelyföldi Népzene Az Elmúlt 120 Évből)

Marianna Nyitrai, Zoltán Juhász, Üsztürü Band

Fonó Records

Rating: ★★★★

Zoltán Juhász, an ethnomusicologist and a renowned bagpipe, whistle and flute player joined Marianna Nyitrai, a famous folk singer, activist...

Reviewed by Agnieszka Ujma in issue: March/2019

Review of El Callegüeso y su Mala Maña

El Callegüeso y su Mala Maña

La Mambanegra

Top of the World

Movimientos Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Cali is known as the home of salsa in Colombia, a reputation based on the way they dance it, rather...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2017

Review of Alma Adentro

Alma Adentro

Miguel Zenón

Marsalis Music

Rating: ★★★

The old black and white photo of a cool dancing couple on the cover and the subtitle of this album...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2012

Review of Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Aïta Productions

Rating: ★★★★

The musicians of Brittany and Ireland have long held each other in high musical esteem and nowhere is this admiration...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2017

Review of CantöRiöndö

CantöRiöndö

Gruppo Spontaneo Trallalero

Felmay Records

Rating: ★★★

The spirit of Genoa resounds through this celebration of the singing circle of trallalero – a form of urban traditional...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of Stories of Stonia

Stories of Stonia

Mari Kalkun

Top of the World

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Singer Mari Kalkun is a native speaker of Võro, an endangered South Estonian language, not easy even for speakers of...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: August/September/2023

Review of NARA

NARA

Emily Wurramara

ABC Music

Rating: ★★★

The second album from Indigenous Warnindhilyagwa singer-songwriter Emily Wurramara displays the growth of her music since 2016’s Black Smoke EP...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: December/2024

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