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Review of Sulla Rotta dei Venti

Sulla Rotta dei Venti

North East Ska Jazz Orchestra

Top of the World

Brixton Records

Rating: ★★★★

North East Ska Jazz Orchestra are back with a powerhouse album to celebrate their tenth anniversary. Taking listeners on a...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: July/2024

Review of Cosas Raras

Cosas Raras

Rolando Bruno y El Grupo Arevalo

Peace and Rhythm / Electric Cowbell / DJ Cajon Records

Rating: ★★★★

‘I, who was born with Videla / I, who was born without power, I, who fought for freedom but could...

Reviewed by Juan José Relmucao in issue: September/2024

Review of Tchopo

Tchopo

Kate Griffin & Matchume Zango

Kate Griffin & Matchume Zango

Rating: ★★★★

Kate Griffin, UK banjo player, and Matchume Zango, a multi-instrumentalist from Mozambique, met online in 2020 during a Making Tracks...

Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: September/2024

Review of Rembobine

Rembobine

Mélisande

Les Disques Passeport

Rating: ★★★★

For the past 10 years, the Québécois band Mélisande [éléctrotrad] has been creating dance-floor electro versions of traditional French-Canadian songs...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: July/2024

Review of Grace Will Lead Me Home

Grace Will Lead Me Home

Angeline Morrison, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne & Jon Bickley

Invisible Folk

Rating: ★★★

Last year was the 250th anniversary of the writing of ‘Amazing Grace’ while next year is the 300th anniversary of...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024

Review of Waralungku

Waralungku

Arrkula Yinbayarra

EM Media & Events

Rating: ★★★★

Back in 2013, Darwin-based Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter Shellie Morris released the album Together We Are Strong – Ngambala Wiji Li-Wunungu:...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2024

Review of Luoteniegut

Luoteniegut

Áššu

Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★★

Joik vocalist Ulla Pirttijärvi is among northern Finland’s strongest Indigenous voices. Pirttijärvi combines her powerful singing with West African influences...

Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: June/2025

Review of The Pearl Album (Live in Celebration)

The Pearl Album (Live in Celebration)

Danú

Danu Music

Rating: ★★★★

Alternating songs with jigs, reels, slides, marches, hornpipes and airs, The Pearl Album celebrates 30 years of music making by...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2025

Review of Tagal

Tagal

Kvedarkvintetten

Grappa Musikkforlag

Rating: ★★★★

This is Norwegian vocal group Kvedarkvintetten‘s third album, a collaboration between the talented quintet and composer/folk musician Jorun Marie Rypdal...

Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: June/2025

Review of Remscéla

Remscéla

Milkweed

Broadside Hacks

Rating: ★★★★

You reach for your speakers; you hadn’t known them to cut out before. Now your system is playing havoc, the...

Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: June/2025

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