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Review of Territoires

Territoires

Le Vent du Nord

Top of the World

Borealis Records

Rating: ★★★★

Québécois supergroup Le Vent du Nord return with their tenth album having recently become a quintet with the addition of...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: May/2019

Review of An Sionnach Dubh

An Sionnach Dubh

Dàibhidh Stiùbhard

Top of the World

Wildtune

Rating: ★★★★

Dàibhidh Stiùbhard's remarkably assured debut, An Sionnach Dubh (The Black Fox), showcases one of the most individual of voices to...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2020

Review of Beginner's Guide to Scandinavia

Beginner's Guide to Scandinavia

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Nascente

Rating: ★★★★

Strictly speaking, Scandinavia consists of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, but compiler Tatiana Rucinska has opted here to defer to common...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2011

Review of Declaration

Declaration

Kate Burke & Ruth Hazleton

Kate Burke & Ruth Hazleton

Rating: ★★★

Favourites on the Australian folk circuit, it's been eight years since Kate Burke and Ruth Hazleton's last recording, Summer's Lonesome...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of Nani

Nani

Emmi Kujanpää

Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★★

Nani is the debut album from Finnish folk musician and researcher Emmi Kujanpää. An avid enthusiast of Finnish and Bulgarian...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2020

Review of Surya: Chants of Light

Surya: Chants of Light

Nadaka & Gopika

Ragamantra

Rating: ★★★★

Vedic chanting – mantras sung in the original Sanskrit – is one of the most beautiful, stimulating, and transcendental musical...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2014

Review of Togetherings

Togetherings

The Blassics

Odd Funk Records

Rating: ★★★

Afrobeat! It started in the West African tropics and blazed a trail almost as far as the Arctic… well, Finland,...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2019

Review of El Bueno y el Malo

El Bueno y el Malo

Hermanos Gutiérrez

Easy Eye Sound

Rating: ★★★★

Swiss-Ecuadorian guitar duo Hermanos Gutiérrez make their intentions clear from the first twang of heavily-reverbed guitar. Sitting somewhere between Tarantino...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Apollo You Sixteen

Apollo You Sixteen

Karim Baggili

Take the Bus

Rating: ★★★★

‘Progressive world music’ is how this Belgium-based 40-year-old autodidact describes his latest album, which fuses flamenco with folk, garage, classical...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of Ensen

Ensen

Emel

Partisan Records

Rating: ★★★

Emel Mathlouthi is a Tunisian singer-songwriter whose song ‘Kelmti Horra (My Word is Free)’ became a youth anthem during the...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2017

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