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Review of Romanian Tales

Romanian Tales

Diana Rasina

Galileo Music

Rating: ★★★

Diana Rasina is a Romanian singer, based in Vienna. Romanian Tales is a strong album and certainly marks her as...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2016

Review of The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Cumbia

The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Cumbia

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

The ever-growing thirst for Peruvian cumbia (sometimes known as chicha) is showing no signs of being satiated. What started in...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: November/2015

Review of Nyn

Nyn

Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★

Stassinopoulou has aptly described herself as a ‘Balkan ethno-trance artist’ and a practitioner of techno-folk psychedelia. I’ve been listening to...

Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: November/2016

Review of The Voice of Suka

The Voice of Suka

Maria Pomianowska

Top of the World

For Tune

Rating: ★★★★★

This is a remarkable album. Maria Pomianowska is a Polish fiddle player who collaborates with musicians all over the world;...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2017

Review of All the Way Home

All the Way Home

Cathy Jordan

Top of the World

Blix Street Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Cathy Jordan has stepped out from the front ranks of the band Dervish after more than two decades. Her debut...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2012

Review of Tablananda

Tablananda

Subhasis Bhattacharya

Top of the World

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★★

There is a fine tradition of brothers in bands, occasionally accompanied by a sub-plot of sibling rivalry. Fortunately there is...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Jan/Feb/2019

Review of Fuel

Fuel

4Square

Transition Records

Rating: ★★★

Not long after their humble beginnings in a farmhouse in North Manchester in 2006, this young group's fusion of folk,...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2016

Review of Sangam

Sangam

Paul Livingstone & Pete Jacobson

Yarlung Records

Rating: ★★★★

The chamber music duo of sitarist Paul Livingstone and cellist Pete Jacobson, aka Sangam, have a new album of the...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: December/2022

Review of Bright Morning Stars

Bright Morning Stars

The Wailin’ Jennys

Red House

Rating: ★★★

They're not sisters, but The Wailin’ Jennys sound like they must have grown up singing under the same roof together....

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2011

Review of Moa Anbessa

Moa Anbessa

Getatchew Mekuria

Terp Records AS11

Rating: ★★★

Possibly taking a leaf out of the book of his compatriot and contemporary Mulatu Astatke, the Ethiopian saxophonist – and...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: June/2010

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