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Review of The Tin Fiddle

The Tin Fiddle

Damien McGeehan

Damien McGeehan

Rating: ★★★

Your ears could be forgiven for presuming there was at least one percussionist, guitarist or mandolin player on this album....

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: August/2017

Review of Pueblo Vivo (Vibrant People)

Pueblo Vivo (Vibrant People)

La Otrabanda

La Otrabanda

Rating: ★★★

It's always a pleasure with world music – and especially so with Latin American rhythms – to be disorientated. When...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Solla Solla Volume 1

Solla Solla Volume 1

Ilaiyaraaja

Finders Keepers

Rating: ★★★

Although not well-known in the West, Ilaiyaraaja was reigning king of South India's popular music long before AR Rahman became...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2011

Review of Gold or Dust

Gold or Dust

Cocos Lovers

Smugglers Records

Rating: ★★★

This is the third album from the alt-folk, world music-infused eight-strong collective from Kent, and was conceived at the band’s...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Undersong

Undersong

Salt House

Make Believe Records

Rating: ★★★★

In the wild waters of the straits between the isles of Harris and North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2018

Review of Louisiana Sun

Louisiana Sun

Mama Rosin

Voodoo Rhythm Records

Rating: ★★★

Some years back, Mama Rosin, the high-octane punk Cajun combo from Switzerland, met Hipbone Slim & the Knee Tremblers, a...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of A Cassowary Apart

A Cassowary Apart

Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers

Bedroom Suck Records

Rating: ★★★★

The world of ambient banjo is a small one. This was the joke that brought together two participants in the...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2021

Review of As If…

As If…

Coope Boyes & Simpson

No Masters NMCD35

Rating: ★★★★

British folk’s most prominent close harmony trio, Coope, Boyes & Simpson are veterans of the excellent Blue Murder (with assorted...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Kokoda

Kokoda

Ilan-Ilan

Frémeaux & Associés

Rating: ★★★★

Named for the flower that scents the air of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, the Ilan-Ilan band was created in...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Utopia and Wasteland

Utopia and Wasteland

Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar

Top of the World

RootBeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

No prizes for guessing to where the ‘utopia and wasteland’ of the title refers. It comes as no surprise that...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2018

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