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Review of É o Que a Casa Oferece

É o Que a Casa Oferece

Gabriel da Rosa

Stones Throw Records

Rating: ★★

Having relocated to Los Angeles in 2010, Brazilian musician Gabriel da Rosa turned into a DJ that introduced his country's...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2023

Review of Párhuzamok és Kontrasztok

Párhuzamok és Kontrasztok

Muzsikás & Amadinda

Fonó

Rating: ★★★★

Amazingly Muzsikás' last record, The Bartók Album, came out in 1998 and was a Top of the World in #1....

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020

Review of Mulher do Norte

Mulher do Norte

Claudia Aurora

Red Orange Recordings

Rating: ★★★

There is hardly a greater challenge to any fadista than addressing the immaculate and unbeatable Amália Rodrigues’ repertoire. Amália cannot...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2016

Review of Komsa Gayar

Komsa Gayar

Lindigo

Helico Records

Rating: ★★★★

Lindigo are a band firmly in touch with their roots, but that's not to say they aren't moving forward. For...

Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: Jan/Feb/2019

Review of Leyenda

Leyenda

Ana Alcaide

Top of the World

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★★

Paying tribute variously to Mother Earth, to a Chinese goddess of flight and to the wicked sirens of Andalusian waterfalls,...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Argai

Argai

Ale Möller Band

Playground

Rating: ★★★★

The achievements of Ale Möller, and the importance of what he’s done for traditional music should not be understated. He...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Spider Tales

Spider Tales

Jake Blount

Top of the World

Free Dirt Records

Rating: ★★★★★

As a teenager growing up in Virginia, Jake Blount played guitar in funk and metal bands until one day he...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2020

Review of Antipody

Antipody

Good Habits

Good Habits

Rating: ★★★

When is a duo not a duo? When it sounds like a chorus. Okay, as a joke it perhaps doesn’t...

Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Paradise

Paradise

Dub Inc

Diversité

Rating: ★★

Dub Inc are a multicultural force in French music, famous at home for giving Saint- Étienne’s Algerian minority a place...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2014

Review of Bach to Folk

Bach to Folk

Lodestar Trio

Naxos World

Rating: ★★★★

Max Baillie is a British-German classical violin virtuoso who has worked with Björk; Erik Rydvall, a Swede who plays the...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2022

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