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Review of Up Through the Woods

Up Through the Woods

David Gibb & Elly Lucas

Hairpin Records

Rating: ★★★★

From the first to the last note of the second album from this Derbyshire duo – guitarist Gibb and fiddler...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Review of La Maison d'Amour

La Maison d'Amour

Léonore Boulanger & Maam-Li Merati

Okraina Records

Rating: ★★★★

Maam-Li Merati is a skilled classical Persian singer, setar and kamancheh player. Léonore Boulanger has learned singing from him since...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: July/2017

Review of Lamwong: Freedom Fighters

Lamwong: Freedom Fighters

Acholi Machon

IRL

Rating: ★★★

The musicians from the Acholi tribe in remote northern Uganda were recorded on Lamwong by producer Ian Brennan, known for...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Mavrika

Mavrika

Mavrika

Psolista Records

Rating: ★★★★

This reimagining of Greek songs from the first half of the 20th century is successful in giving a Balkan beat...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2013

Review of From the Stillhouse

From the Stillhouse

Murder Murder

Murder Murder

Rating: ★★★

Hailing from the frozen forests of northern Ontario, Murder Murder describe themselves as a ‘bloodgrass’ band. Particularly interested in murder...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2017

Review of Jouhikko

Jouhikko

Lassi Logrén

Top of the World

Siba Records

Rating: ★★★★

Finnish music fans around the world know Logrén as the fiddle player in the legendary band Värttinä. What they might...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: September/2024

Review of Talassa

Talassa

Dario Muci

Zero Zero Nove

Rating: ★★★

After 25 years of researching and performing traditional music from Salento and Apulia, Italy, singer-songwriter Dario Muci releases his first...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: December/2024

Review of Rammana

Rammana

Salin

Top of the World

Salin

Rating: ★★★★★

I first heard about Salin from Haitian jazz artists in Montréal who told me she was the best drummer in...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: June/2025

Review of Hinterland

Hinterland

Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver

Top of the World

EarToTheGround Music

Rating: ★★★★★

Hinterland – a region beyond what is visible or known – comes with freights of psychological scree, and this striking...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2025

Review of Amargo

Amargo

Caprice

Caprice

Rating: ★★

The poetry of Andalusian hero Federico García Lorca is the conceptual centrepiece of Amargo. This is best exemplified on the...

Reviewed by Tom Spargo in issue: April/2025

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