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Review of Melliken

Melliken

Väsen

Olov Johansson Musik

Rating: ★★★★★

The legendary group Väsen is like a golden thread running through Sweden's folk music, connecting past traditions and players, illuminating...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2023

Review of Cara de Espelho

Cara de Espelho

Cara de Espelho

Locomotiva Azul

Rating: ★★★★

No one by now can be ignorant of the far-right rise all over the world. In Portugal, the alarm is...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2024

Review of Kathryn Tickell & The Side

Kathryn Tickell & The Side

Kathryn Tickell & The Side

Top of the World

Resilient Records

Rating: ★★★★★

The brilliant Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell has worked with classical musicians before, composing for the Nash Ensemble, percussionist Joanna MacGregor...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Our Latin Thing

Our Latin Thing

Fania All-Stars

Strut/Fania

Rating: ★★★★★

This special edition package celebrates the 40th anniversary of a very special night. On Thursday August 26 1971, the stellar...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of Shamrock City

Shamrock City

Solas

Top of the World

THL Records

Rating: ★★★★★

In 1910, a young man named Michael Conway left rural poverty behind in Ireland and took passage across the Atlantic...

Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: July/2013

Review of Baila Sahara Baila

Baila Sahara Baila

Mariem Hassan & Vadiya Mint El Hanevi

Nubenegra Records

Rating: ★★★★

This is the final album from one of the great voices of the Sahara: Mariem Hassan died in August 2015...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2016

Review of The Speech Project

The Speech Project

Gerry Driver

One Fine Day

Rating: ★★★★

That a mundane bit of tidying up can inspire a work of the origin¬ality and quality of The Speech Project...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2012

Review of The Moral of the Elephant

The Moral of the Elephant

Martin & Eliza Carthy

Top of the World

Topic

Rating: ★★★★★

We’ve heard them together in Waterson:Carthy, but this is the first time father and daughter have recorded as a duo,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2014

Review of Nedaye Asemani

Nedaye Asemani

Shahkilid

Muziekpublique

Rating: ★★★★

The spiritual but contagious excite¬ment that we have come to associate with Iranian classical music is abundantly present on this...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Roi Du Ziglibithy

Roi Du Ziglibithy

Ernesto Djédjé

Analog Africa

Rating: ★★★

This reissue collects four tracks by Ernesto Djédjé, the guitarist from Ivory Coast who made his first singles in Paris,...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2022

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