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Review of I Love You Inna

I Love You Inna

Oumar Konaté

Clermont Music

Rating: ★★★★

Hailing from Gao in northern Mali, Konaté's roots are steeped in the desert blues of the Songhai people. But the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2019

Review of Lichtungen

Lichtungen

Matthias Loibner

Top of the World

Traumton Records

Rating: ★★★★★

The hurdy-gurdy is an instrument that lurks slightly in the shadows. It appears in a few folk bands, like Blowzabella,...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2016

Review of Time Ashore

Time Ashore

Kirsty Bromley

Kizzy Records

Rating: ★★★

Sheffield-based 20-something Kirsty Bromley began her personal musical journey singing in choirs, then played in brass bands and danced with...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2015

Review of The Beautiful Road

The Beautiful Road

Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly

Claddagh Records

Rating: ★★★★

Kíla frontman Rónán Ó Snodaigh and fellow musician and film-maker Myles O’Reilly's first outing together on disc, 2021's Tá Go...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2023

Review of Piknik

Piknik

Uusikuu

Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★★

Uusikuu could just be the house band at the cosy local tavern of your dreams, with warm, relaxed vocals backed...

Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: May/2025

Review of Cowboy Sutra

Cowboy Sutra

Hal Cannon

Okehdokee Records

Rating: ★★★★

In Cowboy Sutra, Hal Cannon, a specialist in early Utah folk music and a founding member of 3hattrio, mines the...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2025

Review of Cinnamon Flower

Cinnamon Flower

The Charlie Rouse Band

Resonance Records

Rating: ★★★★

For over a decade, Charlie Rouse’s tenor sax graced Thelonious Monk’s quartet during the final chapter of the pianist’s career....

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2025

Review of Lisané Bahir

Lisané Bahir

Kibrom Birhane

Top of the World

Flying Carpet Records

Rating: ★★★★

Lisané Bahir, the fourth offering from LA-based Ethiopian keys player Kibrom Birhane is an otherworldly set deftly combining tradition with...

Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: January/2026

Review of Santana IV

Santana IV

Santana

Thirty Tigers

Rating: ★★★★

The ground-breaking Afro-Latin rock fusion of Carlos Santana and his band set alight the 1969 Woodstock festival and opened the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2016

Review of Anamkhara

Anamkhara

Kelly Thoma

Seistron

Rating: ★★★★

Piraeus-born Cretan lyra player Kelly Thoma is a pupil of Ross Daly and a part of the diverse group of...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2011

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