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Review of Lååje – Dawn

Lååje – Dawn

Marja Mortensson & Daniel Herskedal

Top of the World

Vuelie

Rating: ★★★★

Marja Mortensson – winner of a Spellemannprisen (the Norwegian Grammy Award) in 2018 – writes ‘we could only ever become...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2020

Review of Waterways

Waterways

JR Coote

JR Coote

Rating: ★★

J R Coote trained as a classical guitarist at Cambridge University, and spent time in southern Spain studying flamenco. These...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Lullaby for Naila

Lullaby for Naila

London Lucumi Choir

London Lucumi Choir

Rating: ★★★★

How right-on do you like your music? The London Lucumi Choir is a community choir that doesn’t select through auditions....

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Regions

Regions

Ellis Island Sound

Village Green

Rating: ★

The brains behind Ellis Island Sound (Pete Astor and David Sheppard) are those of musical veterans; they have been collaborating...

Reviewed by Mike Fleck in issue: June/2014

Review of Handful of Earth

Handful of Earth

Dick Gaughan

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

When this album was released in November 1981, the year had already seen riots in Brixton, Toxteth and Moss Side,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2019

Review of Mali All Stars: Bogolan Music

Mali All Stars: Bogolan Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★★

You might have thought there were already enough compilations of Malian music in the world. But this well presented box-set...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2014

Review of AntroPOPhagia

AntroPOPhagia

Beatriz Azevedo

Biscoito Fino

Rating: ★★★

Beatriz Azevedo is a Brazilian Renaissance woman. A celebrated poet, writer and anthropologist, she's also a composer and a bosom...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of Second Nature

Second Nature

Minor Empire

World Trip Records

Rating: ★★★★

Recent winners of Best World Music Group at Canada’s Folk Music Award, Toronto’s Minor Empire bring a subtlety to this...

Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: March/2012

Review of Halo

Halo

Juana Molina

Crammed Discs

Rating: ★★★★

This is the Argentinian alchemist Juana Molina's seventh album and it demonstrates a masterful refinement of her sample-based, patchwork approach...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: July/2017

Review of Hed

Hed

Kreiz Breizh Akademi #7

Coop Breizh

Rating: ★★★

The seventh-born of the well-known Kreiz Breizh Akademi musical laboratory from Brittany, this collective is based on the famous tradition...

Reviewed by Anne Ge in issue: March/2020

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