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Review of If He Dies, If If If If If If

If He Dies, If If If If If If

Jerusalem in My Heart

Constellation

Rating: ★★★★

Not so much a group as a multi-media project, Jerusalem in My Heart consist of Lebanon-born Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2016

Review of Nostalgic Bollywood: Memorable Songs from Films of Love and Devotion (1939-1959)

Nostalgic Bollywood: Memorable Songs from Films of Love and Devotion (1939-1959)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

This sumptuous compilation offers a detailed survey of Indian movie songs from throughout the genre's Golden Age during the 1940s...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2023

Review of Tinta y Tiempo

Tinta y Tiempo

Jorge Drexler

Sony Music Entertainment España

Rating: ★★★★

Uruguayan songwriter Jorge Drexler’s first album in five years shares many-hued stories of love and lust with classic Drexlerian poetic...

Reviewed by Catalina Maria Johnson in issue: June/2022

Review of Clear Skies

Clear Skies

Réalta

Réalta Music

Rating: ★★★★

For the follow-up to their largely mellow and laidback 2012 debut, Open the Door for Three, Belfast trio Réalta have...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of VisaFree

VisaFree

RotFront

Essay Recordings

Rating: ★★

A Ukrainian, two Hungarians, an Australian and five Germans walk into a recording studio, and… well, I wish I could...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Babani Koné

Babani Koné

Babani Koné

World Village

Rating: ★★★

I'm always wary when I read that an artist wants to ‘broaden their audience’ and make an ‘international’ album –...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2020

Review of Acoustic Accordions

Acoustic Accordions

Michael Nyman & Motion Trio

MN Records MNRCD117

Rating: ★★★

Motion Trio are three Polish accordion players: Janusz Wojtarowicz, Pawel Baranek and Marcin Galazyn. Since their debut CD, Pictures from...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2010

Review of Keturah

Keturah

Keturah

Hen House Studios

Rating: ★★★

Keturah made her first recordings in her native Malawi in 2010 at the age of 14, but her introduction to...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2023

Review of Cup of Sugar

Cup of Sugar

Tim O’Brien

Howdy Skies Records

Rating: ★★★

A native West Virginian, 69-year-old Tim O’Brien represents the best of the contemporary Nashville scene. His instrumental acumen, especially on...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2023

Review of Guajiro

Guajiro

Eliades Ochoa

World Circuit/BMG

Rating: ★★★★

Eliades Ochoa seems to be speeding up with age, touring the world, producing his second new record within a year,...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: July/2023

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