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Review of Places of Consequence

Places of Consequence

Cameron Knowler | Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter

American Dream Records

Rating: ★★★★

Knowler’s first full-length solo album offers 14 carefully considered and compelling songs that merge traditional folk with modern sensibilities. Spending his...

Reviewed by Amy Hollinrake in issue: October/2021

Review of The Key

The Key

Blazin' Fiddles

Blazin'' Fiddles

Rating: ★★★★

What's not to love about Blazin' Fiddles? Comprising some of the best fiddlers on the Scottish traditional music scene today...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Review of Teenage Dreams

Teenage Dreams

Native Soul

Awesome Tapes from Africa

Rating: ★★★

Unless you have been living under a rock this summer, the likelihood is you would have heard amapiano booming from...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2021

Review of Folk Music of China Vol 3: Folk Songs of Yunnan

Folk Music of China Vol 3: Folk Songs of Yunnan

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Naxos World

Rating: ★★★

The title of this album would be more accurate with a subtitle of The Wa, Blang, and De'ang, as these...

Reviewed by Mu Qian in issue: April/2020

Review of Jiw

Jiw

Sahad & the Nataal Patchwork

Patch World Production

Rating: ★★★

It took eight years of personal introspection and musical exploration for the Dakar-based Sahad Sarr to bring out his debut...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: July/2017

Review of Live in Vienna

Live in Vienna

The Dublin Legends

Blue Groove

Rating: ★★★★

The death of The Dubliners’ ‘Banjo’ Barney McKenna in 2012 saw the surviving band members – Sean Cannon, Eamonn Campbell...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2014

Review of Can You Feel It?

Can You Feel It?

The Drive

We Are Busy Bodies

Rating: ★★★

Last year the excellent Canadian crate-digging label We Are Busy Bodies reissued Armitage Road, a 1970 album by South African...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2021

Review of The Nile Project: Aswan

The Nile Project: Aswan

Various Artists

Top of the World

The Nile Project

Rating: ★★★★

In January earlier this year 18 musicians from five countries along the Nile came together in an unprecedented collaboration. This...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of Music of Central Asia Vol Seven: In the Shrine of the Heart

Music of Central Asia Vol Seven: In the Shrine of the Heart

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD40526

Rating: ★★★

With its seventh volume, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture series focuses for the first time on Uzbekistan and traditional...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2010

Review of Mãe

Mãe

Liana

Crowd Records

Rating: ★★★

Mãe (Mother) is Liana’s take on motherhood in our present age of anxiety. It’s her fourth solo album (she has...

Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: October/2020

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