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Review of In a Hoary Winter’s Night

In a Hoary Winter’s Night

Joglaresa

Joglaresa

Rating: ★★★

Joglaresa’s fifth album is a selection of ‘Irish and English Songs of Wintertide’. There is a wi de ra n...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Music for Hope

Music for Hope

Wu Man with Amjad Ali Khan

Zoho

Rating: ★★★

Indian sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan has done a few collaborative recordings with musicians from other traditions – for instance...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2023

Review of Minka

Minka

Eva Quartet

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Eva Quartet are undoubtedly the finest current exponents of small group vocal music by Bulgarian composers and arrangers, rooted...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021

Review of Avgi: Live in Heraklion Walls

Avgi: Live in Heraklion Walls

Stelios Petrakis Quartet

Top of the World

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

Lyra virtuoso Stelios Petrakis is one of several talented young musicians to have emerged from the teaching and performance workshops...

Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Yeraz

Yeraz

Jivan Gasparyan Duduk Ensemble

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

There are few instruments as beautiful as the Armenian duduk. Its plaintive, reedy tone seems to exude melancholy. Djivan (or...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Review of Live in Lesotho

Live in Lesotho

Hugh Masekela & Company

Matsuli Music

Rating: ★★★★

In December 1980 the African businessman Victor Maloi arranged a concert for Masekela and Miriam Makeba in Lesotho, a country...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020

Review of Awakening

Awakening

Spiritual

Oufah Music/VP Records

Rating: ★★★

Listening to ‘Black Man Story’, the opening track, is like stepping back to the 1970s, so evocative are the vocal...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2017

Review of The Ethiopian: Open the Gate of Zion

The Ethiopian: Open the Gate of Zion

The Ethiopian

Jamaican Art Records

Rating: ★★★★

After recording solo ska singles at Studio One, Leonard Dillon formed The Ethiopians harmony trio in the rock steady era...

Reviewed by David Katz in issue: Aug/Sep/2021

Review of Jaipur to Cairo

Jaipur to Cairo

Cuatro Puntos Resident Musicians

Métier Records

Rating: ★★

Using traditional music as the medium to compose Western classical music, Jaipur to Cairo is a collection of works by...

Reviewed by James Roriston in issue: October/2019

Review of 80s World Music Classics: When The World Was Young

80s World Music Classics: When The World Was Young

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Nascente

Rating: ★★★★

Like the compilers of this collection, back in the 1980s I turned to the sounds of Africa and other parts...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: June/2011

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