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Review of Aukai

Aukai

Aukai

Aukai

Rating: ★★

Aukai is German multi-instrumentalist and composer Markus Sieber; his stage moniker is a Hawaiian word meaning ‘traveller.’ His ambient-hippy instrumental...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of A Cut Above

A Cut Above

Will Pound

Top of the World

Lulubug Records

Rating: ★★★★★

As a child, Will Pound had several heart operations. His father gave him a harmonica when Will was ten, thinking...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of Tributo Desde Londres a Cali

Tributo Desde Londres a Cali

Dorance Lorza & Sexteto Café

DLR Music

Rating: ★★

After a smash-hit album with Salsa with Vibraphone, Dorance Lorza & Sexteto Café are back. The music here is pleasant,...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Jan/Feb/2019

Review of In Our Voices

In Our Voices

Moira Smiley & VOCO

Top of the World

Moira Smiley Music

Rating: ★★★★★

Sing out, people. Raise your voices. Raise them in harmony with others. Sing out in the spirit of dissent and...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2021

Review of Jiangnan Sizhu Music

Jiangnan Sizhu Music

Lingling Yu & Guo Gan

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

Two more Chinese virtuosi, another enjoyable record. The sizhu in the title refers to ‘silk and bamboo’, as in the...

Reviewed by Michael Church in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of La Huerta

La Huerta

Tori Sparks

Glass Mountain Records

Rating: ★★★

Five years ago, American singer-songwriter Tori Sparks moved from Nashville to Barcelona. She took with her a guitar and a...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2017

Review of Grannen

Grannen

Frigg

Frigg

Rating: ★★★★★

Frigg can do no wrong. I have waxed lyrical about them in these pages in the past and am beginning...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Curiche

Curiche

Newen Afrobeat

Newen Afrobeat

Rating: ★★★

In the past ten years Afrobeat has spread across Latin America, new disciples discovering the genre through the internet and...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2020

Review of Binari: Well Wishing Music

Binari: Well Wishing Music

Dulsori

Top of the World

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

As those who have seen the group live know, Dulsori mix old and new, but they do so with authority,...

Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: June/2012

Review of Karkadé

Karkadé

Mohamed Abozekry

Jazz Village

Rating: ★★★★

Egyptian-born Mohamed Abozekry is the latest in an illustrious line of oud players from the Arab world who have graced...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

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