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Review of Harmonograph

Harmonograph

False Lights

Wreckord label

Rating: ★★★★

A big welcome back to Sam Carter and Jim Moray, whose debut album under the guise of False Lights, Salvor,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2018

Review of An Dà Là – The Two Days

An Dà Là – The Two Days

Mànran

Manran Records

Rating: ★★★

After three years of near-constant touring, this six-piece band’s third album finds Ewen Henderson taking over lead vocals from now-departed...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: May/2017

Review of Radio Vietnam

Radio Vietnam

Mark Gergis

Sublime Frequencies

Rating: ★

Belonging to Sublime Frequencies’ locale-specific radio collage series, Radio Vietnam is a ‘plunderphonics’ album: that's to say, the mashed-up audio...

Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: July/2015

Review of Mopepe Mama

Mopepe Mama

Syssi Mananga

Syssi Mananga

Rating: ★★★★

Syssi Mananga is a Brussels-based singer-songwriter of Afro-pop leanings and Belgian and Congolese heritage whose debut, Retour aux Sources(Back to...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2021

Review of Los Nostres Vices e Pecats

Los Nostres Vices e Pecats

Els Berros de la Cort

Ojo Musica

Rating: ★★★★

Els Berros de la Cort are the musical equivalent of a re-enactment group, performing material from the medieval Catalan and...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2013

Review of Kamalamba

Kamalamba

Raphaëlle Brochet & Philippe Aerts

Igloo

Rating: ★★

Stripping back an arrangement to just bass and voice can make for a spellbinding moment of intimacy. Kamalamba is an...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: March/2018

Review of Middle of Everywhere

Middle of Everywhere

Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three

Continental Song City

Rating: ★★★

At first glance, it would be easy to dismiss Pokey LaFarge as just another retro poseur, zoot-suiting his way onto...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Shakespeare Songs

Shakespeare Songs

The Company of Players

Company of Players

Rating: ★★★

Opening with an a capella version of the witches’ curses, spells and premonitions from the murky first scene of Macbeth...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2018

Review of Nādī

Nādī

Guy Buttery

Top of the World

Guy Buttery

Rating: ★★★★

Over a series of impressive solo albums, the guitarist Guy Buttery has established himself as a major force in South...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2020

Review of Hjeltamôs

Hjeltamôs

Per Gudmundson & Bengan Janson

Country and Eastern

Rating: ★★★★

A crackling fire under a summer sky, dried flowers on a windowsill, a wistful smile and the coolness of grass...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2018

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