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Review of God is Not a Terrorist

God is Not a Terrorist

Ustad Saami

Top of the World

Glitterbeat

Rating: ★★★★★

Produced by Ian Brennan, the US music enthusiast whose wanderings have brought us the Malawi Mouse Boys and other treasures,...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2019

Review of Orava: Panorama of Folk Song and Music Culture

Orava: Panorama of Folk Song and Music Culture

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Feeling

Rating: ★★★

This double-CD and booklet is the first in a series of six important archival releases of traditional Slovak music. Orava...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2021

Review of Canaich

Canaich

Duncan Chisholm

Copperfish Records CPFCD004

Rating: ★★★★

As is traditional for a Scottish Highland male, fiddler Duncan Chisholm isn’t one to get too demonstrative in the material...

Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: October/2010

Review of Coliseu

Coliseu

Ana Moura

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

In June 2008, following the success of her third studio album, Para Além da Saudade, Ana Moura gave two concerts,...

Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: June/2011

Review of Charge

Charge

Monster Ceilidh Band

Dave''s Flat records

Rating: ★★★

Alumni of the folk music degree course at Newcastle University, this energetic five-piece make a very modern marriage of ceilidh...

Reviewed by Graeme Thomson in issue: Apr/May/2014

Review of Musique de Nuit

Musique de Nuit

Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal

Top of the World

No Format!

Rating: ★★★★

Two musicians operating at the height of their talent, Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal have mastered string instruments worlds apart...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: October/2015

Review of 20sth

20sth

Jaune Toujours

Top of the World

Choux de Bruxelles 2 CDs

Rating: ★★★★

Perhaps the first thing to point out – although it’s not immediately noticeable on first listen – is that this...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: May/2017

Review of Yom

Yom

Yom

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

There's your everyday virtuoso klezmer clarinettist, and then there's the enigmatic Yom. Hebrew for ‘day’, the word yom also describes...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: May/2018

Review of Vagabonde

Vagabonde

Mar Seek

Teianga Beat

Rating: ★★★★

Hasn’t the world now heard every possible permutation of the nexus of bands that revolutionised Senegalese music in the 1970s,...

Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: March/2014

Review of Still + Bright

Still + Bright

Amythyst Kiah

Rounder Records

Rating: ★★★

Tennessee singer, guitarist, banjo player and songwriter Amythyst Kiah has come a long way from her early roots singing Appalachian...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: December/2024

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