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Review of Awakening

Awakening

Spiritual

Oufah Music/VP Records

Rating: ★★★

Listening to ‘Black Man Story’, the opening track, is like stepping back to the 1970s, so evocative are the vocal...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2017

Review of Esquina de São Paulo

Esquina de São Paulo

Danilo Brito & João Luiz

Zoho Music

Rating: ★★★★

Latin Grammy-nominated classical guitarist João Luiz and composer and mandolin player Danilo Brito have shared a friendship for nearly 20...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: May/2022

Review of Los Duendes de la Marimba

Los Duendes de la Marimba

Dinastía Torres

Top of the World

Palenque Records

Rating: ★★★★

This album was recorded in the house of the Torres family (keepers of the Torres dynasty, masters of Colombia’s Pacific...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2020

Review of A Year Too Late and a Month Too Soon

A Year Too Late and a Month Too Soon

Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones

Top of the World

Splid Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Thankfully, it is now that we are beginning to see the beauty that can emerge from a tumultuous few years....

Reviewed by Rachel Cunniffe in issue: July/2022

Review of Débruit & Istanbul

Débruit & Istanbul

Débruit

ICI

Rating: ★★★★

Parisian producer Xavier Thomas, aka Débruit, burst onto the scene with his debut album From the Horizon in 2012. This...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: June/2016

Review of Lulu

Lulu

Good Morning Bedlam

Erika Records

Rating: ★★★

In 2021, Good Morning Bedlam ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund their third full-length album. Fans from around world pledged...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2022

Review of Surfing Times

Surfing Times

Los Plantronics

Jansen Plateproduksjon

Rating: ★★★

Odd to think that a nation as staid and wealthy as Norway could produce a band as raucous as Los...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2015

Review of Unsongs

Unsongs

Moddi

Propeller

Rating: ★★★

The 29-year-old Norwegian singer-songwriter Moddi who, like a Scandinavian Billy Bragg, combines his music with left-wing political activism, hit upon...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2016

Review of My Gypsy Waltz

My Gypsy Waltz

Eduardo Niebla

LMR Records

Rating: ★★★★

The spiritual journey flamenco guitarist Eduardo Niebla takes with these eight pieces is rooted in various families: his own family,...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Jonah

Jonah

Calan

Sain

Rating: ★★★

Calan's avowed intent – according to their press release, at least – is ‘to give traditional music in Wales a...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2012

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