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Review of Safar

Safar

Imed Alibi

Top of the World

IRL Records

Rating: ★★★★

Here comes another new project from the new Tunisia. Except it is not quite the new Tunisia, but rather, the...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2014

Review of 9Bach

9Bach

9Bach

Top of the World

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★★

I reviewed 9Bach's debut for a national newspaper back in 2009 and it remains my favourite album of theirs. Ten...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2019

Review of Chosen Daughter

Chosen Daughter

Maz O'Connor

Restless Head Records

Rating: ★★★★

When I reviewed O'Connor's debut release, This Willowed Light, back in #102, I enthused about how the turn of phrase...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2019

Review of Come 2 Me

Come 2 Me

Ilaria Graziano & Francesco Forni

Top of the World

Agualoca Records

Rating: ★★★★

In 2015, Ilaria Graziano and Francesco Forni delighted their native Italian audiences, as well as overseas listeners, with the Irish-tinged...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2016

Review of The Jellyman's Daughter

The Jellyman's Daughter

The Jellyman's Daughter

The Jellyman''s Daughter

Rating: ★★★

By something of a coincidence, Edinburgh duo The Jellyman's Daughter close their debut album with a rather unnervingly intimate version...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of The Room

The Room

Fabiano Do Nascimento & Sam Gendel

Real World

Rating: ★★★★

Back in 1964 American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto released Getz/Gilberto, one of the bestselling jazz albums...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2024

Review of Nubes de Papel

Nubes de Papel

DePedro

Nat Geo Music/EMI

Rating: ★★★

Nubes de Papel (Clouds of Paper) is the second disc from Spanish singer and guitarist DePedro, also known as Jairo...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2011

Review of OK OK OK

OK OK OK

Gilberto Gil

Geléia Geral

Rating: ★★★★

Having released 60 albums since 1967, Afro-Brazilian legend Gilberto Gil shows no sign of slowing down with his latest project,...

Reviewed by Julia Baker in issue: March/2019

Review of Hatching Hares

Hatching Hares

Anna Tam

Tam Records

Rating: ★★★

A one-time member of early music-cum-folk ensembles Wilde Roses and the Mediaeval Baebes, Tam is an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist with a...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2022

Review of Parampara Festival 13.3.1992

Parampara Festival 13.3.1992

Amelia Cuni

Black Truffle

Rating: ★★★★

Held in Berlin in 1992, Parampara Festival brought together Indian teachers and their international students to showcase the global spread...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: January/February/2022

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