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Review of Chamber Music

Chamber Music

Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal

Top of the World

No Format NOF 532

Rating: ★★★★

This hypnotic masterpiece from the French label No Format is another fine example of the label’s penchant for putting musicians...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Shivelight

Shivelight

Mishaped Pearls

Misshapen Records

Rating: ★★★

‘Shivelight’ is the light that dances and dapples through a canopy of trees; something that captures the essence of the...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2018

Review of One Day Band Vol 1

One Day Band Vol 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Trestle Records VINYL & DIGITAL ONLY

Rating: ★★★

What can you achieve in one day? This is the question posed by Trestle Records in East London with their...

Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: April/2020

Review of This is How We Fly

This is How We Fly

This is How We Fly

Playing With Music

Rating: ★★★★

The eponymously titled debut from Dublin-based four-piece is a singular, stylish and somewhat startling proposition. Originally brought together for the...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Volume One 1970-1979

Volume One 1970-1979

Sorry Bamba

Thrill Jockey

Rating: ★★★★

‘Sorry’? The unusual first name is probably an Anglicisation of ‘Sorhy,’ which is itself a twisted version of the common...

Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of All is Not Forgotten

All is Not Forgotten

Siobhan Miller

Songprint Records

Rating: ★★★

All is Not Forgotten follows on from Miller's 2018 release Mercury, and a very pleasant follow-up it is too. New...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2020

Review of For One Touch

For One Touch

Tori Tango

Klopotec Records

Rating: ★★★

Jure Tori is one of Slovenia's most celebrated accordionists, known for hopping with enviable ease between jazz, classical, Gypsy and...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2017

Review of We Have One Destiny

We Have One Destiny

Ayuune Sule

Top of the World

Makkum Records

Rating: ★★★★

Ayuune Sule discovered his passion for playing the kologo — a two-stringed lute — learning from the musicians who would...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: June/2018

Review of One Voice

One Voice

Garrangali

Garrangali

Rating: ★★★★

An 11-piece band from the small indigenous community of Baniyala, situated on Blue Mud Bay in the Top End’s Gulf...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2023

Review of You’re the One

You’re the One

Rhiannon Giddens

Top of the World

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★★

With You’re the One, Giddens is clearly hoping to broaden her appeal beyond the folk/roots/Americana stockade and her fan club...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2023

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