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Gossip

Khaira Arby

Clermont Music

Rating: ★★★

This is veteran Malian singer Khaira Arby's first album in five years, recorded in 2010 and 2012 in various parts...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2015

Review of Times from Times Fall

Times from Times Fall

Fara

FARA Records

Rating: ★★★★

This Orkney born and bred quartet – fiddlers Kristan Harvey, Jeana Leslie and Catriona Price, alongside pianist Jennifer Austin –...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2018

Review of Where We Are

Where We Are

No Go Stop

No Go Stop

Rating: ★★

This second album by Bristolian Afrobeat specialists No Go Stop benefits from a powerful production, the 12-piece band tightly arranged...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2022

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 Strange News

Strange News

Blowzabella

Blowzabella

Rating: ★★★★

Thirty-five years ago, an English dance tune named ‘Blowzabella’ was found in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library of Cecil Sharp...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2014

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 Emergency of the Female Kind

Emergency of the Female Kind

Amy Thatcher & Francesca Knowles

Amy Thatcher & Francesca Knowles

Rating: ★★★

Mixing amped up accordion with dynamic percussion, Amy Thatcher & Francesca Knowles are certainly bringing something new to the table....

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: May/2023

Review of JID018

JID018

Tony Allen

Jazz is Dead

Rating: ★★★

Recorded in 2018 in Los Angeles some 18 months before his death, this is Allen with his jazz head on,...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2023

Review of CYRM

CYRM

ØXN

Top of the World

Claddagh Records

Rating: ★★★★★

In January 2021, Lankum’s Radie Peat and drone-folk artist Katie Kim hosted a livestream featuring heavy arrangements of traditional tales...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: March/2024

Review of Unbound

Unbound

Bizhiki

Top of the World

Jagjaguwar

Rating: ★★★★

Bizhiki are two Native American pow wow singers Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings and Joe Rainey from the Ojibwe people, whose ancestral...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: September/2024

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