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Review of Besh o droM20

Besh o droM20

Besh o droM

Fono

Rating: ★★★★

The first track of Besh o droM's new album, ‘Atom Csocsek’, kicks off with a low-slung bassline coupled with rousing...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of What's Not Enough About That?

What's Not Enough About That?

Vula Viel

Vula Viel

Rating: ★★★★

This third album shows how Vula Viel have very quickly become a band whose new releases you breathlessly await and...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: May/2020

Review of O’Neill's Tunes

O’Neill's Tunes

Dan Walsh

Rooksmere Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Starting life as a book, it was inevitable that Dan Walsh would end up recording his dream project, O’Neill's Tunes....

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: May/2023

Review of Callejera

Callejera

La Perla

Top of the World

Mambo Negro Records

Rating: ★★★★

La Perla have established themselves so insidiously into the fabric of contemporary Colombian music that it’s hard to believe this...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/February/2023

Review of The Lions We Are

The Lions We Are

Dantchev:Domain | DANTCHEV:DOMAIN

Glomama Music

Rating: ★★★

Atmospheric and cinematic, The Lions We Are is a journey across spaces and sensations. Permeated by a playful experimentalism, this...

Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Benvinguts al Llarg Viatge

Benvinguts al Llarg Viatge

Txarango

Discmedi Blau

Rating: ★★★

Catalan band Txarango have been hailed as the grupo revelación, or next big thing, in the Spanish press. Taking their...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2013

Review of Frost on Fiddles

Frost on Fiddles

Frigg

Frigg

Rating: ★★★★★

One of my enduring WOMAD memories is of a cold, wet, muddy night in 2007 when the seven-piece Finnish band...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2017

Review of Passages

Passages

Constantinople

Top of the World

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

Constantinople expands the constellation of projects begun in 1998 by Iranian-Canadian setar (lute) player Kiya Tabassian. Passages features three other...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: November/2016

Review of Dubcatcher 2: Wicked My Yout

Dubcatcher 2: Wicked My Yout

DJ Vadim

Soulbeats Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Russian-born, New York-based DJ Vadim returns with another fast-paced reggae volume under the pseudonym Dubcatcher, this time pulling in...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2016

Review of Super Parquet

Super Parquet

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Top of the World

Pagans

Rating: ★★★★★

We first profiled Super Parquet two years ago (in #134); now they're finally here with a debut to follow 2015's...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2020

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