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Review of Tango Tango de Norte a Sur

Tango Tango de Norte a Sur

Las Chicas del

ARC Music

Rating: ★

We hear lots of rumours about Finland’s tango obsession but rarely get to hear its music. This innovative release features...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2012

Review of Crow

Crow

Mawkin

Mawkin

Rating: ★★★

The history of this Essex five-piece is a convoluted one. Formed a decade ago, this instrumental act is centred on...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2012

Review of Where I Come From

Where I Come From

Christy Moore

Sony/Columbia

Rating: ★★★★

If music provides a map of a nation's soul, then Ireland's foremost troubadour, Christy Moore, is a formidable cartographer.There's a...

Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Apr/May/2014

Review of Burden Lake

Burden Lake

Kevin Henderson & Neil Pearlman

Sungaet Records

Rating: ★★★

Burden Lake is the debut collaboration between Scotland’s Kevin Henderson on fiddle and American Neil Pearlman on piano, a beautiful...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2020

Review of I Was Real

I Was Real

75 Dollar Bill

tak:til

Rating: ★★★

This is the duo's third album, now featuring an expanded line-up with extra guitars and percussion, saxophones, viola, upright bass...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Review of Dancing on the Heads of Snakes

Dancing on the Heads of Snakes

Orontes

Worlds Within Worlds

Rating: ★★

Orontes began as a Syrian-Spanish project in the city of Homs, but ceased to function when the catastrophic civil war...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of Yoruba Odyssey

Yoruba Odyssey

Adédèjì

Top of the World

One World

Rating: ★★★★

In recent years Nigerian music has become synonymous with the globalised Afrobeats of the likes of Burna Boy and Wizkid....

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Help My Brother

Help My Brother

The Gibson Brothers

Compass

Rating: ★★★★

For a couple of gifted instrumentalists, Eric (banjo) and Leigh Gibson (guitar) have honed their naturally nasal vocal registers into...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2011

Review of Absolutely The… Uniques

Absolutely The… Uniques

The Uniques

Cherry Red Records

Rating: ★★★★

Sweet harmonies reign supreme on this previously ultra-rare Trojan release, available now for the first time since 1968. In Jamaica,...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: May/2018

Review of Nosotras Somos

Nosotras Somos

Las Migas

Chesapik

Rating: ★★★

In the male– dominated world of flamenco, all-female groups like Las Migas are still a rarity – even in Catalonia’s...

Reviewed by Russell Parton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

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