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Review of Presents… Kingsize Blackfoot

Presents… Kingsize Blackfoot

Jinder

Din of Ecstasy

Rating: ★★★

Jinder is one Phil Dewhurst, a West Country based musician who is very tall and has Blackfoot Sioux bloodlines in...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2017

Review of Ballads of Seduction, Fertility and Ritual Slaughter

Ballads of Seduction, Fertility and Ritual Slaughter

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Was Ist Das?

Rating: ★★★★

Curated by Ned Netherwood and commemorating the 50th anniversary of seminal folk horror film The Wicker Man, Ballads of Seduction,...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2023

Review of Al Qantara: The Bridge

Al Qantara: The Bridge

Benjamin Taubkin

Adventure Music

Rating: ★★★★

Southern Morocco has become a hot-house of cultural fusion, partly due to the number of foreign musicians playing and working...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2014

Review of Edge of the Sun

Edge of the Sun

Calexico

City Slang

Rating: ★★★★★

The music of Joey Burns and John Convertino, Calexico's core members, has long explored the Tex-Mex sounds of the cactus-strewn...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of At the Stringsmith's Forge

At the Stringsmith's Forge

Skyhook

Skyhook Music

Rating: ★★★★

The traditional reels, jigs and strathspeys from Scotland, Ireland and Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia that informed Skyhook's first...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Live at the Bimhuis

Live at the Bimhuis

Arifa & Voices from the East

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★

Arifa are a band that are hard to define – four musicians from Turkey, Romania, Greece and Germany, resident in...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2015

Review of Bayou Moonlight

Bayou Moonlight

Jeffery Broussard & The Nighttime Syndicate

Fairgrounds Records

Rating: ★★★★

From the second that Bayou Moonlight’s opening track, ‘Whatever’, hits you, it’s readily apparent that you’re in for a wild,...

Reviewed by Andrew Daly in issue: July/2025

Review of Tongue & Groove

Tongue & Groove

The Andrew Collins Trio

Andrew Collins Trio

Rating: ★★★★

This is in fact two albums released together. Tongue and Groove are one disc of songs with vocals and a...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2018

Review of Albion Voice

Albion Voice

Bishi

Gryphon Records

Rating: ★★★★

She's a one-woman show wrapped in the colours of leftfield folk pop, Indian strings, art ensemble music and a broad...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013

Review of Unjugged

Unjugged

Jim Kweskin

Hornbeam

Rating: ★★★★

The Jim Kweskin Jug Band formed in 1963 and quickly leapt to the forefront of the US folk revival. In...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2018

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