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Review of Essentials

Essentials

Rastak

Rastak

Rating: ★★★★

We often associate Iranian music with long, melancholy pieces. But Persian culture is rich in folkloric music as well, rooted...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: December/2023

Review of Una Oportunidad Más de Triunfar en la Vida

Una Oportunidad Más de Triunfar en la Vida

Los Pirañas

Glitterbeat

Rating: ★★★

The tireless and protean Eblis Álvarez is back in another form. The Meridian Brothers artist hitches up with Mario Galeano...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2025

Review of Kathryn Tickell & The Side

Kathryn Tickell & The Side

Kathryn Tickell & The Side

Top of the World

Resilient Records

Rating: ★★★★★

The brilliant Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell has worked with classical musicians before, composing for the Nash Ensemble, percussionist Joanna MacGregor...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

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 Sonic Talismans

Sonic Talismans

Li Daiguo & Liang YiYuan

Full Spectrum Records

Rating: ★★★★

Born of a 14-year collaborative partnership between Chinese avant-garde musicians Liang YiYuan and Li Daiguo, Sonic Talismans is the first...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2024

Review of Alone on a Hill

Alone on a Hill

Katy Rose Bennett

Little House on the Hill Records

Rating: ★★★

Katy Rose Bennett has been performing her Americana-tinged style of folk music for the best part of 20 years. She's...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2021

Review of A Retrospective

A Retrospective

Pink Martini | Pink Martini & Saori Yuki

EMI

Rating: ★★★

‘If the United Nations had a house band in 1962, hopefully we’d be that band,’ commented Thomas Lauderdale, bandleader of...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of The Speech Project

The Speech Project

Gerry Driver

One Fine Day

Rating: ★★★★

That a mundane bit of tidying up can inspire a work of the origin¬ality and quality of The Speech Project...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2012

Review of Peculiar, Missouri

Peculiar, Missouri

Willi Carlisle

Free Dirt Records

Rating: ★★★★

One thing peculiar about Willi Carlisle’s Peculiar, Missouri is how peculiar it ain’t, except in the sense that the dozen...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2022

Review of Oy

Oy

Mohsen Namjoo

Fabrica Music STR70013

Rating: ★★

Mohsen Namjoo has created quite a buzz in Iran in recent years, initially as a singer-songwriter pushing the boundaries and...

Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: October/2010

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