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Review of Feast Frost Bites

Feast Frost Bites

Belshazzar’s

Wild Goose Records WGS366CD

Rating: ★★★

Pauls Hutchinson and Sartin return with a festive offering of carols and tunes to see us through yuletide. The result...

Reviewed by Andy Letcher in issue: Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock

Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock

75 Dollar Bill

Top of the World

tak:til

Rating: ★★★★

This second album by the New York duo 75 Dollar Bill made the year-end ‘Best Of’ lists in several UK...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2017

Review of Afterlife

Afterlife

The Three Seas

Earshift Music

Rating: ★★★

Aussie saxophonist Matt Keegan has spearheaded an extraordinary fusion on Afterlife, combining Indian folk voice and verse with buoyant baritone...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2022

Review of Entreverados

Entreverados

Burgos Buschini Dúo

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

Gato, zamba, chacarera, milonga: these musics were the seedbed from which tango sprung and have since become an ongoing rural...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2017

Review of Landskein

Landskein

Lauren MacColl

Top of the World

Make Believe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Lauren MacColl is one of Scotland’s finest fiddlers. Her latest album’s title, Landskein, loosely means ‘Thread’ and it is in...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2020

Review of New Orleans Funk Vol 4

New Orleans Funk Vol 4

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Soul Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Soul Jazz Records does a remarkable job in its reissues of Caribbean music and the New Orleans Funk series always...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2017

Review of Tiganeasca

Tiganeasca

Les Yeux Noirs

Zig Zag

Rating: ★★★

French Gypsy band Les Yeux Noirs take their name from a Django Reinhardt tune. They formed around fiddlers and singers...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Me Quité

Me Quité

Héctor Valentín

Top of the World

Tumi

Rating: ★★★★★

A gem for Cuban music lovers: a new album from seasoned singer Héctor Valentín, lead vocalist for some of the...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2021

Review of Epleslang

Epleslang

MAAR

Ta:lik

Rating: ★★★★

Here's a party, a celebration and an exploration by musicians who come from different backgrounds yet who share a chemistry...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2016

Review of Cubafonía

Cubafonía

Daymé Arocena

Brownswood Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

This second album by Havana-born singer Daymé Arocena partly came about via ‘a platform for contemporary Cuban creativity driven by...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2017

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