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Review of Lam Klom Thung: Essential Phairin Phonphibun

Lam Klom Thung: Essential Phairin Phonphibun

Phairin Phonphibun

em records

Rating: ★★★★

Veteran bandleader, songwriter and producer Surin Paksiri has long been regarded as one of north-east Thailand's key musical figures. The...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: April/2016

Review of Don’t Give Up

Don’t Give Up

Jason Tamba

Playing for Change

Rating: ★★★

Born in Kinshasa, Jason Tamba, who began playing guitar at the age of seven on a homemade instrument, went on...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2022

Review of Telegrafy

Telegrafy

Banda

Pavian Records

Rating: ★★

Active since 2003, Banda are one of the leading folk bands in Slovakia. This is their fourth album. The six-piece...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2019

Review of Tepid on My Trippin’ Heels

Tepid on My Trippin’ Heels

Naomi Randall

Aaahh!!! Real Records

Rating: ★★★★

Naomi Randall is a Cambridge native who debuted in 2013 with an album she shared with Tom Gaskall. Randall continued...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2020

Review of Dabke: Sounds of the Syrian Houran

Dabke: Sounds of the Syrian Houran

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Sham Palace

Rating: ★★★★★

One suspects there isn’t a lot of dancing going on in Syria just now. But anyone who, in happier times,...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2013

Review of Greater Jamaica

Greater Jamaica

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Cherry Red Records

Rating: ★★★★

Producer Duke Reid's compilation advertises ‘Reggay at its best’ – that's reggae circa 1969, as connoisseurs will note from the...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2019

Review of La Part du Hasard

La Part du Hasard

L'Attirail

Les Chantier Sonores

Rating: ★★★

Twenty-three years, 12 albums, one theme: Xavier Demerliac's oeuvre is as steadfast as a train steaming down the track. Each...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2018

Review of Kardeş

Kardeş

Divanhana

Kalan Müzik

Rating: ★★★★

The movement in Bosnian music known as new sevdah, a recasting of a traditional urban song style with Slav, Turkish...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2019

Review of Astro-Hungarian Jewish Music

Astro-Hungarian Jewish Music

Frank London Glass House Orchestra

Piranha Music

Rating: ★★★

The Glass House Orchestra takes its name from the Üvegház (Glass House), a building used by the Swiss diplomat Carl...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2017

Review of A Thousand Hearts

A Thousand Hearts

Cara Dillon

Charcoal Records

Rating: ★★★★

Five year's after Cara Dillon's last studio album, 2009's Hill of Thieves, comes A Thousand Hearts, a brittle and beautiful...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

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