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Review of Eastern Moon Rising

Eastern Moon Rising

Boris Kovac & La Campanella

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★

Serbian sax player Kovač is fond of wearing an incandescent pink suit. It's perhaps not the garb you'd expect: there...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Apr/May/2014

Review of Gass Giss

Gass Giss

Takeifa

Keyzit

Rating: ★★

Takeifa like to keep it in the family: the five members are all siblings. The four brothers and a sister...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2017

Review of A Pocket Full of Acorns

A Pocket Full of Acorns

Ninebarrow

Winding Track

Rating: ★★★

For existing fans, Ninebarrow's fourth album will not disappoint; the harmonious vocals are present and correct, as are the considered...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: April/2021

Review of Vortex

Vortex

Methera

Methera Records

Rating: ★★★★

For their third album and tenth anniversary, the string quartet Methera convened at Home Farm Barns in Norfolk over three...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2016

Review of Surya: Chants of Light

Surya: Chants of Light

Nadaka & Gopika

Ragamantra

Rating: ★★★★

Vedic chanting – mantras sung in the original Sanskrit – is one of the most beautiful, stimulating, and transcendental musical...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2014

Review of Wild Winds

Wild Winds

Artisan Row

Lola Records

Rating: ★★★

Wild Winds is a rich offering from a London-Irish quartet (Conor Doherty, Elma McElligott, Pete Quinn and Karen Ryan). It...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: December/2017

Review of Pieds Nus

Pieds Nus

Soadan

Tinker Label/Foudrage/Socadisc

Rating: ★★★★

Grégory Audrain, Jean-Marie Lemasson and Armel Goupil are the three multi-instrumentalists that make up French fusion group Soadan. After spending...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: July/2022

Review of Bahía

Bahía

Ana Carla Maza

Persona Editorial

Rating: ★★★★★

Ana Carla Maza is a virtuoso Cuban composer, cellist and singer. Her latest album, Bahía, takes you on a spellbinding...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: April/2022

Review of Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico

Familia: Tribute to Bebo & Chico

Arturo O'Farrill & Chucho Valdés

Motéma Music

Rating: ★★★★

On Familia, two Latin jazz pianists pay tribute to two celebrated forefathers of the genre: Bebo Valdés and Chico O'Farrill,...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Review of Water Street

Water Street

Tom Oakes

Window Weather Records

Rating: ★★★

Devon-born, Edinburgh-based multi-instrumentalist Tom Oakes created this entirely solo recording in adversity after his prized Grinter flute shattered onstage on...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: April/2022

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