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Review of When We Fly

When We Fly

Siger

Trad Records

Rating: ★★★

Hartwin Dhoore and his younger brother, Ward, are a duo from Rodeland in Belgium. They take their name, Siger, from...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: January/February/2024

Review of Solen Var Bättre Där

Solen Var Bättre Där

Ævestaden

Supertraditional

Rating: ★★★★

When I reviewed Ævestaden’s 2021 debut album Ingen Mere Gråter in Songlines #176 (April 2022), I described their music as...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2023

Review of Ultrabelleza

Ultrabelleza

María José Llergo

Sony Music Spain

Rating: ★★★

This first full-length album by Spanish singer-songwriter María José Llergo offers further proof of her versatile reimagining of traditional flamenco,...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: December/2023

Review of Karkelo

Karkelo

Polenta

Polenta Music

Rating: ★★★

Polenta is an odd name for a Finnish folk band. However, in Finnish ‘polenta’ means ‘stomp’. This youthful Helsinki quartet...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: May/2024

Review of Originali

Originali

Orkestar Kriminal

CPL-Music

Rating: ★★★★

Orkestar Kriminal’s evolution reaches a highpoint with Originali, their first album of entirely original compositions. Renowned for their renditions of...

Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: June/2024

Review of Memoria de los Cantes Flamencos – Vol 1

Memoria de los Cantes Flamencos – Vol 1

Paco El Loco & Sangitananda

Buda Musique/Socadisc

Rating: ★★★★★

Part of a five-set anthology, presenting 71 different flamenco palos, this first volume covers 12 palos, some taking their inspiration...

Reviewed by Thérèse Wassily Saba in issue: August/2024

Review of No Reino dos Afetos 2

No Reino dos Afetos 2

Bruno Berle

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

For his second outing Berle, now relocated to São Paulo from his home state of Alagoas, has once more co-produced...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: July/2024

Review of Troubadour

Troubadour

Dorothy Carter

Drag City

Rating: ★★★★

Singer, Mediæval Bæbes founder and master hummer dulcimer and psaltery player, Dorothy Carter is getting a posthumous reappraisal of late....

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: November/2024

Review of Breathing Raga

Breathing Raga

Niloy Ahsan

Top of the World

Worlds Within Worlds

Rating: ★★★★★

Breathing Raga is heaven, a full dhrupad performance of raag Bhairav, from alap to bandish (composition). The singer here is...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: September/2024

Review of Mahavélouz

Mahavélouz

Jako Maron

Nyege Nyege Tapes

Rating: ★★★

La Réunion’s maloya music has provided fertile ground for electronic producers looking to inject the genre’s trancelike rhythms onto sub-heavy...

Reviewed by Timothy Clarke-Romain in issue: April/2025

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