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Review of Benedicte Maurseth

Benedicte Maurseth

Benedicte Maurseth

heilo

Rating: ★★★

Benedicte Maurseth is a pre-eminent player of the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Unlike the conventional violin, a Hardanger fiddle has four...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: November/2019

Review of Komia

Komia

Puhti

Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★★★

In the old Karelian culture of Finland, illatsus are festive evenings that combine music and dance. The Finnish duo Puhti,...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Blue White Gold

Blue White Gold

Dreamers’ Circus

Vertical Records

Rating: ★★★★

It has already been a decade since Danes Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (fiddle), Nikolaj Busk (piano and accordion) and Swede Ale...

Reviewed by James Roriston in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of The Rough Guide to Jug Band Blues

The Rough Guide to Jug Band Blues

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★

Jug bands were one of the phenomenons of 1920s and 30s blues, their members being so poor they literally blew...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: August/2017

Review of Ketan

Ketan

Blay Ambolley

Agogo Records

Rating: ★★★★

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is a highlife singer and multi-instrumentalist from the coastal city of Sekondi-Takoradi in the western region of Ghana....

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2017

Review of Flash of the Spirit

Flash of the Spirit

Jon Hassell & Farafina

tak:til

Rating: ★★★★★

Jon Hassell is a contemporary classical minimalist musician who forged a deep engagement with music from India and West Africa....

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2020

Review of Salsa Vintage

Salsa Vintage

Gerardo Rosales

Rosales Music

Rating: ★★★★

Based in the Netherlands since 1992, Venezuelan percussionist Gerardo Rosales has played with such big-hitters as Oscar D’León, Jimmy Bosch,...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2017

Review of Lift

Lift

Koki Nakano with Vincent Segal

No Format!

Rating: ★★★★

Anything that involves the French cellist and world music adventurer Vincent Segal is always worth hearing. Here, he teams up...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2017

Review of Clichê

Clichê

Raf Vilar

Ajabu! Records

Rating: ★★★★

Back in 2011, this London-based Brazilian singer-songwriter brought out a first album with the somewhat misleading title, Studies in Bossa...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2022

Review of Revolutionary Birds

Revolutionary Birds

Wassim Halal, Erwan Keravec, Mounir Troudi

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

Revolutionary Birds is a striking new collaboration between Tunisian jazz and Sufi singer Mounir Troudi, Breton bagpiper Erwan Keravec, and...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

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