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Review of 200 Weeks Ago

200 Weeks Ago

VOŁOSI | Vołosi

VOŁOSI

Rating: ★★★★★

There's something immediately recognisable about the VOŁOSI sound. The Polish group is all strings and they’re played tightly and rhythmically...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2023

Review of History

History

Bokanté

Real World

Rating: ★★★★★

Deep Southern guitar drawls open this sun-drenched record. History, Bokanté's third album, is anchored in the blues while drawing upon...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: August/September/2023

Review of Wild Wet World

Wild Wet World

Cosmo Sheldrake

Tardigrade

Rating: ★★★

Sheldrake’s previous album was the excellent Wake Up Calls, featuring music and sound set to birdsong, in order to ‘help...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2023

Review of Tora

Tora

GRAIU

GRAIU

Rating: ★★★

Many have drawn the link between the blues of the American south and the ‘blues’ of the Balkans. GRAIU takes...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: July/2023

Review of Viral Wreckage

Viral Wreckage

Aunty Rayzor

Hakuna Kulala

Rating: ★★★

Bisola Olungbenga has all the makings of a new Nigerian star. Trading under the memorable name of Aunty Rayzor, she...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: November/2023

Review of Variations for Piano and Sitar

Variations for Piano and Sitar

Andrew Goldberg & Ricky Romain

Andrew Goldberg & Ricky Romain

Rating: ★★★

Sitarist Ricky Romain has long been a stalwart of the South Asian music scene in the UK, working with musicians...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2023

Review of The Resonance Between

The Resonance Between

Alam Khan, Arjun K Verma, Jack Perla & Del Sol Quartet

Six Degrees/AMMP

Rating: ★★★★★

While there are countless East-West fusions out there, there are few that sound as effortlessly meant to be as this...

Reviewed by Alexndra Petropoulos in issue: December/2023

Review of Back to the Taverna

Back to the Taverna

Cherry Bandora

Rebel Up! Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Cherry Bandora are a band from Berlin that revel in their cultural roots at the eastern end of the Mediterranean....

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2023

Review of Viva el Sábado: Hits de Disco Pop Peruano (1978-1989)

Viva el Sábado: Hits de Disco Pop Peruano (1978-1989)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Buh Records

Rating: ★★★★★

When musical influences from two distinct cultural regions merge, the results are almost always fascinating, and that’s certainly the case...

Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: December/2023

Review of Stubb

Stubb

Gangar

Heilo Records

Rating: ★★★★

“This is Norwegian folk music… WITH AC/DC CHORDS!” Gangar’s Hardanger fiddle player Mattias Thedens bellowed out in a tiny hotel...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: December/2023

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