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Review of Cajun Honky Tonk: The Khoury Recordings Vol 2

Cajun Honky Tonk: The Khoury Recordings Vol 2

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Arhoolie Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz has long been one of the great record collectors and has reissued much ‘lost’ music....

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2013

Review of Afternoon Tea at Six

Afternoon Tea at Six

Eishan Ensemble

Art as Catharsis

Rating: ★★★★

Following just two years after their excellent 2018 debut Nim Dong, this second recording by Sydney ethno-jazz collective Eishan Ensemble...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2020

Review of Citizen

Citizen

Trinity Roots

Trinity Roots

Rating: ★★★★

Led by two ex-Fat Freddy's Drop members – guitarist Warren Maxwell and bassist Rio Hemopo – Trinity Roots have played...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of Ivresses

Ivresses

Alireza Ghorbani & Dorsaf Hamdani

Top of the World

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★★

Iranian singer Alireza Ghorbani and Tunisian singer Dorsaf Hamdani here have teamed up for a celebration of the poetry of...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: June/2011

Review of Super Nova Samba Funk

Super Nova Samba Funk

Banda Black Rio

Far Out

Rating: ★★★

Over a decade that’s seen all kinds of obscure and often fantastic Brazilian funk prised from the archives, the band...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Gloryland

Gloryland

California Feetwarmers

California Feetwarmers

Rating: ★★★

There are a lot of trad jazz revivalist acts out there. The LA-based seven-piece California Feetwarmers are one of many...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: June/2019

Review of The Calais Sessions

The Calais Sessions

Various Artists, Featuring the Musicians of the Calais ‘Jungle’

Top of the World

Sessions of the World

Rating: ★★★★★

One weekend in September 2015, a group of international musicians based in the UK visited the now-demolished refugee and migrant...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of Acoustic

Acoustic

Oumou Sangaré

Nø Førmat!

Rating: ★★★★

Oumou Sangaré's label have certainly got some mileage out of her brilliant 2017 album, Mogoya. It was followed a year...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Kaftan d’Alma

Kaftan d’Alma

Maja Milinkovic

Croatia Records

Rating: ★★★

Maybe we can blame a common Mediterranean feeling working its way into a shared culture, but it is quite interesting...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2021

Review of The Art of the Chinese Guzheng

The Art of the Chinese Guzheng

Wu Mengmeng

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

This album is a tribute to the main regional styles of guzheng (21-string zither) music in China. Having worked with...

Reviewed by Hyelim Kim in issue: June/2019

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