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Review of Risplendenti, Riversi

Risplendenti, Riversi

Nataša Mirkovic & Michel Godard

Dreyer-Gaido

Rating: ★★★

Bosnian-born Nataša Mirković has been exploring the borderlands between early music and Balkan melodies for some years. Both categories are...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: May/2021

Review of Do Norte

Do Norte

A Bossa Eletrica

Connective Records

Rating: ★★

With lyrics in Portuguese and perfect pronunciation you could be forgiven for thinking A Bossa Eletrica are from Brazil. In...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2012

Review of Khiyo

Khiyo

Khiyo

Top of the World

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

This promising debut from a young, London-based band opens thrillingly with the electric-guitar-heavy ‘Akashta Kanpchhilo Kyan’ (Why Did the Sky...

Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: October/2015

Review of Dvojka

Dvojka

Damir Imamović's Sevdah Takht

Glitterbeat

Rating: ★★★★

Born in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, Damir Imamović is one of the leading names in the country's dynamic new sevdah...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2016

Review of ZETS!

ZETS!

YID!

YID!

Rating: ★★★

If the idea of a Yiddish language album seems a little old worldy, you probably haven't yet heard ZETS!. This...

Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: March/2023

Review of 공 空 ('Empty')

공 空 ('Empty')

Melanie Eden

Melanie Eden

Rating: ★★★

Melanie Eden is an Australian performance poet and musician who does not do things by halves. Notable for her unvarnished...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2021

Review of Spelemannsmøte

Spelemannsmøte

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Etnisk Musikklubb

Rating: ★★★

This is one man's dream come true. Folk musician Tore Viksen decided he wanted, for his 70th birthday, a CD...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2016

Review of Como Las Canto Yo

Como Las Canto Yo

iLe

La Buena Fortuna Music

Rating: ★★★

iLe, a former member of alternative Puerto Rican hip-hop outfit Calle 13, is having a busy year. A guest appearance...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: December/2025

Review of Ayô Dele

Ayô Dele

Ireke

Underdog Records

Rating: ★★★★★★★

Returning with Ayô Dele, meaning “joy comes to me” in the Yoruba language, Afro-French collective Ireke serve up a suitably...

Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: May/2026

Review of Windrose

Windrose

The Routes Quartet

Routes Records

Rating: ★★★

A fair few classical string quartets – most recently the Danish String Quartet – have developed traditional music side projects....

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: November/2017

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