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Review of Silêncio

Silêncio

Claudia Aurora

World Village

Rating: ★★

It’s not very clear what Claudia Aurora’s trying to do here. But whatever it is, it doesn’t seem to work....

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2012

Review of The Outlander

The Outlander

Jim Moray

Managed Decline

Rating: ★★★★

On his first album, Sweet England, Jim Moray included ‘The Seeds of Love’, the first folk song Cecil Sharp collected....

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2019

Review of You Are Free

You Are Free

Graeme Armstrong

Graeme Armstrong Records

Rating: ★★★★

Perhaps best known as one third of the mighty Talisk, Graeme Armstrong’s debut solo album presents the singer-songwriter as a...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2022

Review of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett

Top of the World

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Emerging from The Gloaming's five-strong fold, Hardanger d'amore player Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and pianist Thomas Bartlett have struck of to...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2019

Review of Jaiyede Afro

Jaiyede Afro

Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics

Top of the World

Strut

Rating: ★★★★

Orlando Julius should be much more famous outside his native Nigeria. One of the pioneers of Afrobeat, this is the...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2014

Review of Musakayike

Musakayike

Madalitso Band

Bongo Joe Records

Rating: ★★★

Although this duo from Malawi have been touring far and wide since the release of their last album in 2019,...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Alep-Brest

Alep-Brest

Ensemble Fawaz Baker

Hirustica

Rating: ★★★

Aleppo in northern Syria has lived through tragedy. Its name now resonates with the pain of a brutal war, which...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of Vōytek (The Bear)

Vōytek (The Bear)

Tantz

Tantz

Rating: ★★★★

Klezmer has a rebel soul and this is certainly not absent in Tantz's debut album. The fact that they have...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of No Borders

No Borders

Hugh Masekela

Semopa

Rating: ★★★★★

At 78 years young, Masekela sounds as fiercely committed and as vibrant as ever on what is the 44th album...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2017

Review of Conversations with Manol

Conversations with Manol

Ara Dinkjian

Krikor Music

Rating: ★★★★

I loved the idea behind this CD even before I started listening to it; the album pays homage to an...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

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