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Review of Ya Gotta Quit Kickin’ My Dog Around

Ya Gotta Quit Kickin’ My Dog Around

VARIOUS ARTISTS

JSP Records

Rating: ★★★★

Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music featured 84 tracks recorded between 1927 and 1932 and was first released in...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2015

Review of MwSOUL

MwSOUL

Ghalia Benali & Mâäk

MwSOUL Art Foundation

Rating: ★★★★

Tunisian-born but now Brussels-based singer Ghalia Benali's rich and experimental career spans two decades and touches not only on music,...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2017

Review of Acoustic Tarab Alchemy

Acoustic Tarab Alchemy

ATA

Odradek

Rating: ★★★

Odradek is a new label that produces and promotes artists on the simple basis of blind auditions from submitted demos....

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2018

Review of Highlander's Farewell

Highlander's Farewell

Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas

Culburnie/Greentrax

Rating: ★★★

A member of the Celtic supergroup Skyedance, and widely regarded as a Scots fiddle legend, Alasdair Fraser's recent work has...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2011

Review of Yom

Yom

Yom

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

There's your everyday virtuoso klezmer clarinettist, and then there's the enigmatic Yom. Hebrew for ‘day’, the word yom also describes...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: May/2018

Review of More Than One

More Than One

The Idumea Quartet

Penny Fiddle Records

Rating: ★★★★

From the very beginning of this album it is apparent that we are dealing with musicians as equally well-versed in...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2020

Review of Adroneline

Adroneline

Homebound

Bird Creek

Rating: ★★★

Led by the German concertina and hurdy-gurdy player Thomas Zöller, Homebound are a seven-piece world music fusion band who have...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2016

Review of Queen Between

Queen Between

Susheela Raman

Top of the World

Susheela Raman

Rating: ★★★★★

When confronted with an impressive new album, there's always a temptation to hail it as the artist's ‘best work to...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2014

Review of Shadows of Perception

Shadows of Perception

Aracan

Electric Cowbell Records

Rating: ★★★★

Currently based in Australia, Aracan originally hail from Colombia. Guitarist and producer Carlos Arango previously played with a 15-piece cumbia...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: April/2025

Review of Still + Bright

Still + Bright

Amythyst Kiah

Rounder Records

Rating: ★★★

Tennessee singer, guitarist, banjo player and songwriter Amythyst Kiah has come a long way from her early roots singing Appalachian...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: December/2024

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