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Review of Portrait

Portrait

María Volonté

Network Medien

Rating: ★★★★

Well established and widely respected in her native Argentina, María Volonté is largely unknown in Europe. This, her European debut,...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2011

Review of Puja

Puja

Dijf Sanders

Unday Records

Rating: ★★★

This is is the follow-up to Sanders' 2018 release, Java. As with that album, this, his third solo effort, features...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: May/2020

Review of Eve

Eve

Angélique Kidjo

Top of the World

429 Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Dedicated to ‘the women of Africa, to their resilience and their beauty, Kidjo’s tenth studio album features the voices of...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2014

Review of Tim O'Brien Band

Tim O'Brien Band

Tim O'Brien

Top of the World

Howdy Skies

Rating: ★★★★

Both traditionalists and progressively oriented bluegrass fans will cotton to Tim O'Brien's new album. Featuring a seasoned, stripped down, ready-to-kick-tail...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2019

Review of Listen

Listen

Nitish Kulkarni

Nitish Kulkarni Music

Rating: ★

American-born of Indian heritage, Nitish Kulkarni took a Masters degree in music production at the Berklee Campus in Valencia, Spain....

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2018

Review of La Alianza Profana

La Alianza Profana

Dengue Dengue Dengue!

Chusma Records

Rating: ★★★

There is little difference between the way Dengue Dengue Dengue! make music and the way A Guy Called Gerald or...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2013

Review of La Route Intérieure

La Route Intérieure

L’Attirail

Les Chantier Sonores

Rating: ★★★

For 20 years, producer, composer and instrumentalist Xavier Demerliac has been creating concept albums as L’Attirail. His records are influenced...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2015

Review of I Am of Ireland: Yeats in Song

I Am of Ireland: Yeats in Song

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Merrow Records

Rating: ★★★★

It’s been done before and often, but never with such silken, seductive charm as here. Readily lending themselves to music,...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2021

Review of Coiscéim Coiligh: As the Days Brighten

Coiscéim Coiligh: As the Days Brighten

Téada

Gael Linn

Rating: ★★★★

Coming of age this year, Téada celebrate in fine style with their sixth outing on disc, titled with post-pandemic optimism,...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Hokin Janapar

Hokin Janapar

Arsen Petrosyan

Top of the World

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

There was once, in London in the 1920s, a now largely forgotten author named Michael Arlen, an Armenian born in...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2021

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