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Review of Ti Galé

Ti Galé

René Lacaille

Top of the World

Lamastrock / Do Bwa

Rating: ★★★★

Ti Galé is an album of exuberant solo accordion music by René Lacaille, venerable master of sega, the dance music...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2025

Review of Ŋurru Wäŋa

Ŋurru Wäŋa

Hand to Earth

Room40

Rating: ★★★★

Originally developed during an Australian Art Orchestra residency in remote Tasmania, the Hand To Earth ensemble creatively established itself in...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: September/2025

Review of Artifacts

Artifacts

Black Flower

Sdban Ultra

Rating: ★★★★

“Miles Davis, Fela Kuti and Mulatu Astatke walk into a bar…” No, it's not a joke but one way of...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: April/2017

Review of Kíla Alive

Kíla Alive

Kíla

Kíla Records

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded live in various venues throughout 2016, this latest offering from the irrepressible Kíla captures the outfit in their natural...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2017

Review of Fine Bloom

Fine Bloom

Free the Honey

Free the Honey

Rating: ★★★★

Free the Honey is a quartet that plies its trade with a tight-knit, nearly telepathic ease. Jenny Hill (vocals, fiddle,...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of Mozart of the Banjo: The Joe Morley Project

Mozart of the Banjo: The Joe Morley Project

Aaron Jonah Lewis

The Old-Time Tiki Parlour

Rating: ★★★★

Aaron Jonah Lewis' 24-song tribute to the legendary British banjo player and composer Joe Morley (1867-1937) is a fascinating dive...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020

Review of Autumn's Hymn

Autumn's Hymn

Son of John

Son of John

Rating: ★★★★

Son of John is 24-year-old Jacob Johnson, a fingerstyle guitar player in the mould of Nic Jones or Martin Simpson,...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Levantine Rhapsody

Levantine Rhapsody

Didem Başar

Analekta

Rating: ★★★

Having spent the last 15 years collaborating on various international projects, Turkish-born Başar describes her first solo release as an...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: April/2021

Review of Call of the Blues

Call of the Blues

Michael Messer's Mitra

Top of the World

Knife Edge Records

Rating: ★★★★

After meeting at a festival in Mumbai in 2013, the British guitarist Michael Messer and Manish Pingle, who plays the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2016

Review of Wheels of the World

Wheels of the World

Granny's Attic

Grimdon Records

Rating: ★★★★

This English folk trio may be young (they're only in their early 20s) but they're already celebrating a decade of...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2019

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