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Review of Hedera

Hedera

Hedera

Cuculi Records

Rating: ★★★

Tunes from cultural traditions as diverse as Georgia, Northumberland, Bulgaria, Bali and Ireland are set alongside original compositions by this...

Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: April/2026

Review of Yours to Break

Yours to Break

The East Pointers

East Pointers Music

Rating: ★★★

During the writing of their third album, the three East Pointers were scattered across the globe, each a long way...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2020

Review of Duw Duw

Duw Duw

Dai & The Ramblers

Just Peachy Records

Rating: ★★★

An abiding affinity for Cajun and zydeco music permeates Duw Duw, the debut album by London-based singer-guitarist Dai Price and...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2014

Review of Picnic

Picnic

The Hut People

Fellside

Rating: ★★★

Otherwise known as accordionist Sam Pirt andpercussionist Gary Hammond, The Hut People bring to their second full-length album much of...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2012

Review of Zoot!

Zoot!

The Grass Mountain Hobos

Grass Mountain Hobos

Rating: ★★

The prose of their website links this new sextet from Prince Edward Island with ‘a time when pleasure usurped profession...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of $/He Who Feeds You…Owns You

$/He Who Feeds You…Owns You

The Brother Moves On

Native Rebel Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

In a terrific transition from the protest music of their last album, Tolika Mtoliki, The Brother Moves On's fourth record...

Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: December/2022

Review of Play Disco Specials

Play Disco Specials

The Star Beams

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★★

This is a reissue of the 1976 album originally released by the JAS Pride label in South Africa. The set-up...

Reviewed by Michael Galea in issue: May/2020

Review of Home

Home

The Umoza Music Project

Right Track/Universal Music

Rating: ★★★

Here’s an interesting oddity. A group of African musicians sing in a makeshift studio on the banks of Lake Malawi,...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022

Review of Follow Them True

Follow Them True

Stick in the Wheel

From Here Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Anyone who has seen Stick in the Wheel live recently will know just what a diamond-hard machine they have become....

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2018

Review of Rima

Rima

Moana & The Tribe

Top of the World

Black Pearl

Rating: ★★★★

Ever since the arrival of her genre-bending 90s band The Moahunters, veteran Maori songstress Moana Maniapoto has been one of...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

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