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Review of Live at Town Hall

Live at Town Hall

The Klezmatics

Top of the World

Fréa Records

Rating: ★★★★

For my money The Klezmatics have been the most important band on the klezmer scene over the past 25 years....

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2012

Review of Dub Zealand

Dub Zealand

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Green Queen Music

Rating: ★★★★

Reggae recognises no borders and ever since Bob Marley performed a legendary one-off show in Auckland in 1979, the irie...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: July/2011

Review of L'Amazone: Le Chant des Fleuves

L'Amazone: Le Chant des Fleuves

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★★★

The Amazon has been imagined as a tree, its trunk passing from Brazil through Colombia and into Peru, with branches...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2020

Review of The Rough Guide to Indian Classical Music

The Rough Guide to Indian Classical Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

This album features a line-up of some distinguished musicians of North and South Indian music, two distinct classical traditions. Among...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2014

Review of Punky Halal

Punky Halal

Les Boukakes

Believe Digital

Rating: ★★★

It's been 14 years since French Maghreb-influenced band Les Boukakes first started rocking not just the casbahs but the world...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2013

Review of Vintage & Unique

Vintage & Unique

John Reischman & The Jaybirds

Hearth Music

Rating: ★★★★

Mandolinist John Reischman's relative obscurity outside of the insular bluegrass universe is by no means reflective of his standing in...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of The Unbroken Surface of Snow

The Unbroken Surface of Snow

Andrew Cronshaw

Cloud Valley

Rating: ★★★★

Andrew Cronshaw released the beautiful Ochre back in 2005 [reviewed in #27]; seven years later comes The Unbroken Surface of...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2012

Review of Welcome to my World

Welcome to my World

Jah Wobble

30 Herz Records

Rating: ★★★★

One of Britain's most unpredictable musicians, Jah Wobble moves between musical styles like few others. After recent passions for Chinese...

Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Les Rives

Les Rives

Titi Robin

Naive

Rating: ★★★★

There’s a history to this project. The prolific guitarist Titi Robin has long collaborated with Gypsy, Indian, and qawwali artists....

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2012

Review of Na Vschod

Na Vschod

R.U.T.A.

Karrot Kommando

Rating: ★★★★★

R.U.T.A. is a jokey Polish acronym for the Movement of Utopia, Transcendence and Anarchy. Bringing together raw, rustic folk instruments,...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2013

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