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Review of Archipel

Archipel

Yapa

Yapa

Rating: ★★★★

This highly accomplished French quartet, comprise three guitarists and a percussionist. Although they're an acoustic act, their attention to sound...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2018

Review of Espiral de Ilusão

Espiral de Ilusão

Criolo

Sterns Music

Rating: ★★★★

After recording the odd samba on previous albums, Criolo has now devoted a whole album to Brazil's national rhythm, infusing...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2018

Review of Anne Briggs

Anne Briggs

Anne Briggs

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★★

One of three deluxe reissues from Topic as part of its 80th birthday celebrations, Anne Briggs' first album has only...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2019

Review of Morose

Morose

Les Poules à Colin

Les Poules à Colin

Rating: ★★★

Polished musicianship and cosy camp-fire gatherings don’t necessarily go hand in hand. Yet the sophisticated arrangements on this album take...

Reviewed by Wendy Scott in issue: July/2018

Review of Two Score

Two Score

Blowzabella

Blowzabella

Rating: ★★★

Now entering their fifth decade, albeit with a lengthy 1990s hiatus included, and having undergone numerous line-up changes, the current...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018

Review of Con Sentimiento

Con Sentimiento

Noslen Noel

Cugate Clásicos Latinos

Rating: ★★★

Born in just 2002 in Güines (just south of Havana), Noslen Noel has already made a name for himself as...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: October/2021

Review of Nick Harts Sings Ten English Folk Songs

Nick Harts Sings Ten English Folk Songs

Nick Hart

Roebuck Records

Rating: ★★★★

The third studio album from folk singer Nick Hart will ring a bell. With dry humour, he is totting up...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2022

Review of In Transition

In Transition

Loxandra

Dalit Music

Rating: ★★★★

This is a very welcome return by the Thessaloniki-based group Loxandra. This recording has many of the features that made...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2018

Review of Rise & Shine

Rise & Shine

Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars

Top of the World

Cumbancha CMBCD18

Rating: ★★★★

Following the acclaimed film documenting this group's journey from residents of a Guinean refugee camp to international touring band, Rise...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: June/2010

Review of Festa!

Festa!

Andrew Finn Magill

Ropeadope Records

Rating: ★★★

North Carolinian Andrew Finn Magill is an incredibly polished and virtuosic violinist who has turned his bow to many genres...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Aug/Sep/2021

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