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Review of The Sargasso Season

The Sargasso Season

Erica Dee Mah

Erica Dee Mah

Rating: ★★★

From the first few bars of the opening title-track, The Sargasso Season resounds with mellifluous beauty stemming from the pairing...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2022

Review of Nesrine

Nesrine

Nesrine

ACT

Rating: ★★★★

Once again, the musical alchemy of versatile singer and cellist Nesrine Belmokh enchants us. Former front woman of the NES...

Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: December/2020

Review of Party Beats

Party Beats

Nkono Teles

BBE Records

Rating: ★★

This is another re-release from the Tabansi vault of 80s African music. The late Nkono Teles, who is perhaps better...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: November/2019

Review of The Elizabethan Session

The Elizabethan Session

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Quercus Records

Rating: ★★★★

Soon after the various artists who collaborated on The Elizabethan Session conceived their evocation of the first Elizabethan age, they...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Aw Sa Yone Vol 2

Aw Sa Yone Vol 2

Dieuf-Dieul de Thies

Teranga Beat

Rating: ★★★★

In the early 1980s in the city of Thies in Senegal, a group recorded approximately two-and-a-half hours of music that...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2016

Review of The Fragile

The Fragile

O’Hooley & Tidow

No Masters

Rating: ★★★★

O’Hooley & Tidow were mightily impress¬ive at the Nowt So Queer as Folk concert at Cecil Sharp House, the home...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2012

Review of 20 Years

20 Years

Dobranotch

CPL Music

Rating: ★★★

‘As you know, we play music of various countries and peoples,’ says vocalist Mitia Khramtsov in Russian on the live...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2019

Review of String on String

String on String

Amy McAllister

Amy McAllister

Rating: ★★★

County Antrim harpist, fiddler and vocalist Amy McAllister's pleasingly bright and lyrical voice calls to mind the once ubiquitous Mary...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2017

Review of Yiddish Journey: The Music of Lenka Lichtenberg

Yiddish Journey: The Music of Lenka Lichtenberg

Lenka Lichtenberg

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

For better or worse, Jewish song often contends with a dizzying array of demands, from dealing with painful memory to...

Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: May/2016

Review of Finish the Sun

Finish the Sun

Shane Cooper & MABUTA

Dox Records

Rating: ★★★★

Shane Cooper & MABUTA are often referred to as part of a new wave of South African jazz artists. But...

Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: July/2022

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