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Review of Curao

Curao

Quantic & Nidia Góngora

Top of the World

Tru Thoughts

Rating: ★★★★

Quantic has been working with Nidia Góngora since 2011. The Colombian singer and Grupo Canalón de Timbiqui bandleader has popped...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2017

Review of Fado Camões

Fado Camões

LINA_

Top of the World

Galileo Music

Rating: ★★★★★

The artist known as LINA_ is a fado singer with an exquisite voice and a love of experimentation. She won...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2024

Review of Away From My Window

Away From My Window

Iona Fyfe

Cairnie Records

Rating: ★★★

Hailing from Aberdeenshire, Iona Fyfe is one of Scotland's finest young ballad singers. With Fyfe's art rooted deeply in the...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2018

Review of Chewing the Fat

Chewing the Fat

James Patrick Gavin

Sleight of Hand Records

Rating: ★★★

There are ambitious debut albums and there is Chewing the Fat. In this first solo record, London-based Irish violinist James...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2018

Review of Keep Me Waiting

Keep Me Waiting

Big Sadie

Spindle Tree Records

Rating: ★★★

If your tastes run to traditional bluegrass and folk music with a nod to contemporary Americana, you'll find Chicago-based Big...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2017

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 Musique de Nuit

Musique de Nuit

Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal

Top of the World

No Format!

Rating: ★★★★

Two musicians operating at the height of their talent, Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal have mastered string instruments worlds apart...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: October/2015

Review of Kiriké

Kiriké

Kassé Mady Diabaté

Top of the World

No Format!

Rating: ★★★★★

Over his long career, Kassé Mady Diabaté has been part of the fusion projects Songhai and AfroCubism, he has sung...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

Review of The Fragile

The Fragile

O’Hooley & Tidow

No Masters

Rating: ★★★★

O’Hooley & Tidow were mightily impress¬ive at the Nowt So Queer as Folk concert at Cecil Sharp House, the home...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2012

Review of Shadows

Shadows

O’Hooley & Tidow

No Masters

Rating: ★★★★

It's been a productive few years for the acclaimed and distinctive English art-folk duo of Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow....

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2016

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