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Review of En Yay Suh

En Yay Suh

Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang

Luaka Bop

Rating: ★★★★

If you start listening to this album at home, take it one meaty track at a time. The whole album...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of Sun Without the Heat

Sun Without the Heat

Leyla McCalla

Top of the World

ANTI-

Rating: ★★★★

New Orleans-based Leyla McCalla is known for making moving, socially conscious music that takes in all her various influences, from...

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: May/2024

Review of Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée

Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée

La Bottine Souriante

Top of the World

Borealis Records

Rating: ★★★★

Hailing from Quebec, where they formed in 1976, La Bottine Souriante have gone on to sell half a million records...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2012

Review of Black Sea Fire

Black Sea Fire

The Shin

Jaro 42972

Rating: ★★

Several things about this record will make the curious listener well disposed to it from the off. Firstly, despite its...

Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: June/2010

Review of Watching the Well

Watching the Well

Jon Thorne & Danny Thompson

Naim

Rating: ★★★★

Naim is a jazz label with an outstanding contemporary artist roster and a reputation for top-flight sound quality and production....

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Dove Voglio Stare

Dove Voglio Stare

Tartaglia Aneuro

Full Heads Records

Rating: ★★

A popular act in the Neapolitan live scene for the past 12 years, Tartaglia Aneuro gather around singer and frontman...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2024

Review of Skulk

Skulk

Jim Moray

Niblick is a Giraffe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Let's never again speak of Jim Moray as a folk wünderkind. That implies promise not yet fully realised, immaturity, even....

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2012

Review of The Reeling

The Reeling

Brìghde Chaimbeul

Top of the World

River Lea Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

The Reeling ends with the great singer and piper Rona Lightfoot, now 82 years old, giving a little laugh of...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2019

Review of Guitar Improvisations & Tashi Dorji

Guitar Improvisations & Tashi Dorji

Tashi Dorji

Drag City

Rating: ★★★

These two albums were originally issued solely on cassette by Headway Recordings, a now-defunct local label in Asheville, North Carolina,...

Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: March/2024

Review of Rrakala

Rrakala

Gurrumul

Top of the World

Skinnyfish/Dramatico

Rating: ★★★★★

Following up on the incredible success of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's debut 2008 solo album was never going to be easy....

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

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