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Review of Live in Mostar

Live in Mostar

Divanhana

ARC Music

Rating: ★★

Divanhana are a young Sarajevo-based band who have an old-fashioned work ethic: they get on the road and tour! This...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: August/2017

Review of Revolve and Rotate

Revolve and Rotate

Luke Daniels

Gael Productions Ltd

Rating: ★★★★

Luke Daniels’ last album What's Here, What's Gone found him evolving from a well-respected button accordion virtuoso to a more-than-respectable...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2016

Review of NyeSongar.no

NyeSongar.no

Karl Seglem

Ozella Records

Rating: ★★★★

Karl Seglem is important to the Norwegian music scene for many reasons: as a hugely respected tenor sax player, as...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2014

Review of Atlantic Edge

Atlantic Edge

West Ocean String Quartet

West Ocean Records

Rating: ★★★★

Now in their 21st year, the West Ocean String Quartet celebrate their anniversary with their first outing on disc since...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2020

Review of The Blue Room

The Blue Room

Martin Hayes Quartet

251 Records

Rating: ★★★

A fiddler with a characteristically delicate touch, Martin Hayes has won worldwide respect for his unique take on Irish traditional...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Review of Cinema

Cinema

Karsh Kale

Six Degrees

Rating: ★★★

Cinema is fusionist Kale's fifth and most ambitious album and was recorded in New Delhi, New York, Mumbai, and Ibiza...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2011

Review of Red Diesel

Red Diesel

Pilgrims’ Way

Fellside Recordings

Rating: ★★★

It's been a long five years since the trio of singer Lucy Wright, fiddler Tom Kitching and one-man-band Edwin Beasant...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2016

Review of The Rough Guide to the Roots of Country Music

The Rough Guide to the Roots of Country Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

In the 1920s and early 30s the term ‘country music’ had yet to be invented, so any description applied to...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2019

Review of See You Around

See You Around

I’m With Her

Top of the World

Rounder

Rating: ★★★★★

After years of teasing us – an impromptu debut at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 2014, a world tour and...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2018

Review of Remain in Light

Remain in Light

Angélique Kidjo

Top of the World

Kravenworks

Rating: ★★★★★

When Angélique Kidjo performed Talking Heads’ landmark 1980 album Remain in Light in its entirety onstage at Carnegie Hall last...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2018

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