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Review of Imam Baildi

Imam Baildi

Imam Baildi

Kukin Music 5099923680425

Rating: ★★★★

This is a great album, with a great idea behind it: take recordings of Greek popular songs of the 40s...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2010

Review of The Stray Birds

The Stray Birds

The Stray Birds

Stray Birds

Rating: ★★★

The music of The Stray Birds is derived from the soft, delicate underbelly of the traditional American string band. The...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of The Burial of Kojo

The Burial of Kojo

Blitz the Ambassador

Direct Current MGMT

Rating: ★★★★

Blitz the Ambassador is a Ghanaian American visual artist, MC and bandleader with a clutch of interesting, forward-looking albums under...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2019

Review of Olagón

Olagón

Eighth Blackbird

Cedille

Rating: ★★★★

Inspired by the ancient Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, the story being recast by poet Paul Muldoon as a caustic,...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2018

Review of While You Were Slumbering

While You Were Slumbering

Joseph Decosimo

Top of the World

Sleepy Cat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Expert fiddler and banjoist and scholar of southern Appalachian music, Tennessee native Joseph Decosimo bears the legacy of the Cumberland...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/February/2023

Review of No Summer

No Summer

Cinder Well

Free Dirt Records

Rating: ★★★

Welcome to the Radie Peat academy of drone singing, for the powerful example of Lankum and how they have turned...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Canzoni della Cupa

Canzoni della Cupa

Vinicio Capossela

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★

Vinicio Capossela's new double album contains songs that have emerged slowly over a decade. These 23 tracks are divided into...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: October/2017

Review of The Straits

The Straits

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Wantok

Rating: ★★★★

This compilation soundtrack for a new Australian television crime series set in the area between the tropical Queensland town of...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2012

Review of I Heard the Voice of a Donut

I Heard the Voice of a Donut

Screamin’ Miss Jackson & The Slap Ya Mama Big Band

Little Paradise Records

Rating: ★★★

‘I’m just trying to have fun,’ insists the lyric of the penultimate track ‘Old Bones’. Taken as the prime directive...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: October/2016

Review of Open

Open

Kutiman

Siyal

Rating: ★★★

Israeli musician Ophir Kutiel – aka Kutiman – plays every instrument on this, his sixth studio album. He's undeniably talented,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: December/2022

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