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Review of A Day a Month

A Day a Month

Mairearad Green & Mike Vass

Buie Records

Rating: ★★★★

It is hard to believe that A Day a Month is the first collaboration of those ubiquitous stalwarts of the...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2017

Review of Vamo a Gozá

Vamo a Gozá

Irka Mateo y La Tirindanga

Irka Mateo

Rating: ★★★★

Supported by the Grammy Foundation, Irka Mateo travelled around the Dominican Republic documenting genres, even bringing one, comarca, to the...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2018

Review of The Longshot

The Longshot

Megson

EDJ EDJ016

Rating: ★★★

Never has hard graft been so tenderly celebrated as on The Long Shot, the North¬umbrian husband-and-wife duo’s fourth album. Stu...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Ar Puro

Ar Puro

Super Mama Djombo

Smekkleysa SM148

Rating: ★★★

The music of Guinea-Bissau – a tiny wedge of mangroves and jungle hidden between the borders of Senegal and Guinea...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2010

Review of The Fairest Flower of Womankind

The Fairest Flower of Womankind

Lindsay Straw

Lindsay Straw

Rating: ★★★

A native of Montana, a graduate of Berklee College of Music and a traditional balladeer, Lindsay Straw infuses familiar and...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2017

Review of Banquet of Boxes – A Celebration of the English Melodeon

Banquet of Boxes – A Celebration of the English Melodeon

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Mrs Casey Records

Rating: ★★★★

Lots of jokes come my way because people know I like squeeze box music. Recently someone sent a cartoon showing...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of I Like it Like That (A Mi Me Gusta Asi)

I Like it Like That (A Mi Me Gusta Asi)

Pete Rodriguez

Craft Latino

Rating: ★★★★

Pianist Pete Rodriguez is one of the pioneers of Nuyorican music – Puerto Rican musicians in New York City –...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2020

Review of The Shaigiya Sound of Sudan

The Shaigiya Sound of Sudan

Abu Obaida Hassan & His Tambour

Ostinato Records VINYL & DIGITAL ONLY

Rating: ★★★

The Shaigiya people claim lineage from the Arabian Peninsula but grew as a culture in Nubia. The music of the...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Review of Where the Soul Never Dies

Where the Soul Never Dies

Mike Block & Sandeep Das

Top of the World

Bright Shiny Things

Rating: ★★★★

Mike Block is one of the bravest, most intriguing musicians on the American fusion scene. A cellist and member of...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2021

Review of Hedûr: Solace of Time

Hedûr: Solace of Time

Aynur

Dreyer Gaido

Rating: ★★★

If you have seen Aynur in Crossing the Bridge, the successful 2005 documentary by Fatih Akin about music in Istanbul,...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: July/2020

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