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Review of Aur

Aur

Carreg Lafar

Sain

Rating: ★★★

Amazingly, this is only the fourth studio album from the long-established Cardiff-based traditional music group, Carreg Lafar. These champions of...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2017

Review of Offroad

Offroad

Becaye

Etnisk Musikklubb

Rating: ★★★

Becaye is a largely self-taught guitarist who spent his childhood in Dakar, Senegal, from where he developed his unique kora-like...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2017

Review of The Treasure Isle Ska Albums Collection

The Treasure Isle Ska Albums Collection

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Doctor Bird

Rating: ★★★★

The international popularity of ska launched Jamaica's music industry in the early 1960s and one of the big players on...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2019

Review of 25 Trips

25 Trips

Sierra Hull

Roundel

Rating: ★★★★

Sierra Hull's voice is as sparkling clear as a glacial stream tinged with just the right shad of Tennessee twang....

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2020

Review of Manbarani

Manbarani

Natik Awayez

Top of the World

Sublime Frequencies

Rating: ★★★★

Natik Awayez won't be known to many readers. Born in Iraq, he has lived in Bulgaria (studying philosophy), Yemen, Sweden...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: April/2021

Review of The Butcher's Share

The Butcher's Share

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird

Top of the World

Oriente Musik

Rating: ★★★★

If The Klezmatics were the pre-eminent klezmer band of the 1990s, I suspect Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird might...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2018

Review of Hetkessä

Hetkessä

Teija Niku

Ääniä Records

Rating: ★★★★

Finland is a country of many outstanding accordionists and Teija Niku is one of the newer figures on the scene....

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2019

Review of Artemis

Artemis

Moussu T e lei Jovents

Le Chant du Monde

Rating: ★★★★

You’ve got to hand it to them, Mr T and friends have churned out an impressive output, producing five studio...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: July/2013

Review of False Lankum

False Lankum

Lankum

Top of the World

Rough Trade Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Just over three years after the RTÉ Choice Music Prize-winning The Livelong Day, Dublin's Lankum return with their fourth full-length...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: May/2023

Review of Feitiço Caboclo

Feitiço Caboclo

Dona Onete

Top of the World

Mais Um Discos

Rating: ★★★★★

What a wonderful CD: joyful, bursting with energy; rooted in tradition but as fresh as the morning light; and age-old...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

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