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Review of Mountains of Tongues: Musical Dialects of the Caucasus

Mountains of Tongues: Musical Dialects of the Caucasus

VARIOUS ARTISTS

LM Duplication DIGITAL ONLY

Rating: ★★★

The Caucasus mountains on the borders of Europe and Asia are a dramatic mosaic of landscapes and cultures. Alongside the...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of Coexistence

Coexistence

Dal:um

Top of the World

Glitterbeat/tak:til

Rating: ★★★★

Korean duo Dal:um return for a second album of duelling gayageum and geomungo (plucked zithers from the Korean classical tradition)....

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2024

Review of Misneach

Misneach

Tau & The Drones of Praise

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★

Tau & the Drones of Praise are led by Seán Mulrooney, and misneach is an old Irish and Scottish Gaelic...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2023

Review of The Alchemy

The Alchemy

Elements

Earth Brother Music

Rating: ★★★★

Very often discs that are presented as fusion are rather samey and do not so much fuse a number of...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2018

Review of Bahriye Çiftetellisi

Bahriye Çiftetellisi

Cüneyt Sepetçi & Orchestra Dolapdere

Top of the World

LM Dupli-cation

Rating: ★★★★

Orchestra Dolapdere, named after the quarter of Beyoğlu from which the musicians come, includes some top players – Veysel Imeci...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2013

Review of Burma: Classical Theatre Music

Burma: Classical Theatre Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

VDE-Gallo

Rating: ★★★

With so few CDs of Burmese traditional music actually available in the West, this is an important and exciting release....

Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: March/2011

Review of Ni Hui – Voices of the Forest

Ni Hui – Voices of the Forest

Kayatibu

Da Lata Music

Rating: ★★★

There is a running joke in Brazil that the state of Acre doesn’t really exist, an idea based on its...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: July/2025

Review of Aloud

Aloud

Raymond Antrobus & Evelyn Glennie

Toy Gun Murder Records

Rating: ★★★★

Poet Raymond Antrobus and percussionist Evelyn Glennie reconvene for a second album of percussion and poetry, made in one afternoon,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2025

Review of Raajroe: The Reindeer Caravan

Raajroe: The Reindeer Caravan

Marja Mortensson & Daniel Herskedal

Veadta

Rating: ★★★★

With the cinematic sweep of an epic, and with the steady, enduring relentlessness of the rhythms of the natural world,...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2022

Review of The Boston States

The Boston States

Katie McNally Trio

Katie McNally

Rating: ★★★★

The title of this album refers to the moniker given to the greater metro area of Boston in the 19th...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2017

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