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Review of Sleeping Giants

Sleeping Giants

Unfurl

Unfurl

Rating: ★★★★

Formed by violinist/bandleader Olivia Moore, Unfurl is a Manchester-based collective that draws upon contemporary jazz and Indian classical music, partially...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2022

Review of Tango Roto Live

Tango Roto Live

Johanna Juhola & Reaktori

JJ

Rating: ★★★★

Johanna Juhola has earned herself a reputation as one of the finest Finnish accordionists to emerge in recent years: a...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Curao

Curao

Quantic & Nidia Góngora

Top of the World

Tru Thoughts

Rating: ★★★★

Quantic has been working with Nidia Góngora since 2011. The Colombian singer and Grupo Canalón de Timbiqui bandleader has popped...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2017

Review of Afrique Mon Désir

Afrique Mon Désir

Laurinda Hofmeyr, Afrique mon Désir Ensemble & Régis Gizavo & #9;

Laurinda Hofmeyr

Rating: ★★★

For more than two decades, Laurinda Hofmeyr has specialised in setting the poetry of her native South Africa to music....

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2018

Review of The Living World's Demands

The Living World's Demands

Ami Dang

Phantom Limb

Rating: ★★★

As a first-generation Punjabi-American from Baltimore, Ami Dang uses sitar, voice and electronics to carve a complex identity. She deals...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2022

Review of In Transition

In Transition

Loxandra

Dalit Music

Rating: ★★★★

This is a very welcome return by the Thessaloniki-based group Loxandra. This recording has many of the features that made...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2018

Review of 150 Voices

150 Voices

Lorin Sklamberg

Lorin Sklamberg & Polina Shepherd

Rating: ★★

Sklamberg is best-known as the vocalist of The Klezmatics and an excellent Yiddish (and English) singer. Siberian-born Shepherd is also...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2020

Review of Ghost

Ghost

Kate Rusby

Pure Records

Rating: ★★★

In her first album of all-new material since 2010, Rusby plays a set of traditional and original songs loosely themed...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Festa!

Festa!

Andrew Finn Magill

Ropeadope Records

Rating: ★★★

North Carolinian Andrew Finn Magill is an incredibly polished and virtuosic violinist who has turned his bow to many genres...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Aug/Sep/2021

Review of Dominion

Dominion

Melrose Quartet

Melrose Quartet

Rating: ★★★★

This quartet is the combination of two duos – Nancy Kerr and James Fagan with Richard and Jess Arrowsmith –...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

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