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Review of Middle Eastern

Middle Eastern

Mehdi Rajabian

Top of the World

Sony Music Turkey

Rating: ★★★★★

Time and time again we are reminded of music's ability to bridge divides, expose injustices and to give hope to...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Review of Frixx

Frixx

Frigg

Frigg

Rating: ★★★★

The double X of the Finnish fiddlers' album title has nothing to do with the content; rather, it is a...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2020

Review of Off the Floor

Off the Floor

Wendy MacIsaac

Trade Root Music Group

Rating: ★★★★

Welcome to the legendary dance halls of Canada's Cape Breton where, once a favoured fiddler like Wendy MacIsaac starts a...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2015

Review of Vortex

Vortex

Methera

Methera Records

Rating: ★★★★

For their third album and tenth anniversary, the string quartet Methera convened at Home Farm Barns in Norfolk over three...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2016

Review of Adouna

Adouna

Sefo Kanuteh

Actual Music

Rating: ★★★

Releasing two different albums simultaneously is a bold move and you probably need to have a captive audience to get...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2021

Review of Wolves a’ Howlin’

Wolves a’ Howlin’

Kieran Towers & Charlotte Carrivick

Towers & Carrivick

Rating: ★★★

This pair of talented instrumentalists don’t look old enough to be playing music this long in the tooth. Fiddler Kieran...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: December/2016

Review of This Old House

This Old House

Bran Sanders

Bran Sanders

Rating: ★★★

Bran Sanders hails from Shallow Lake in rural Ontario, though he's since lived a semi-nomadic, busking way through life on...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2021

Review of Kertünk Alatt

Kertünk Alatt

Besh o Drom

NarRator Records

Rating: ★★★★

Hungarian band Besh o Drom have been together now in one form or another for over a decade, and in...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of A Lifetime Isn’t Enough

A Lifetime Isn’t Enough

War Women of Kosovo

Toy Gun Murder

Rating: ★★★★

Grammy-winning producer/conflict resolution specialist Ian Brennan and Italian-Rwandan photographer/filmmaker Marilena Delli Umuhoza have long provided platforms for the under-represented with...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2022

Review of Edgelarks

Edgelarks

Edgelarks

Dragonfly Roots

Rating: ★★★★

In the last issue I reviewed Shake the Chains – an album that resulted from a protest-song project conceived by...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2017

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