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Review of Turkey: The Ceremony of the Bektashi Djem

Turkey: The Ceremony of the Bektashi Djem

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Ocora Radio France

Rating: ★★

Many visitors to Turkey will have witnessed the ritual of the Mevlevi ‘Whirling Dervishes,’ either in a performance for tourists...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2013

Review of Morning in a New Machine

Morning in a New Machine

Dubl Handi

Dubl Handi

Rating: ★★★★

What does it take to work wonders with small things? Try taking a reverential approach to American folk music, taking...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2016

Review of Canty

Canty

Joanne McIver & Christophe Saunière

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

Canty is Joanne McIver & Christophe Saunière's seventh album. McIver sings and plays flute, whistles and Scottish smallpipes. Saunière plays...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2019

Review of Wasser und Erde

Wasser und Erde

Akleja

Akleja

Rating: ★★★

Akleja are nyckelharpa players Regina Kunkel and Björn Kaidel (who also plays guitar and Irish bouzouki). Wasser und Erde (Water...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2019

Review of Do Amor e dos Dias

Do Amor e dos Dias

Camané

EMI

Rating: ★★★

Camané's latest album, Of Love and Days, is unlikely to be the easiest of listening for newcomers to fado but...

Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: July/2011

Review of ‘Live’ in Foix

‘Live’ in Foix

Tcha Limberger Trio with Mozes Rosenberg

Lejazzetal Records

Rating: ★★★

Tcha Limberger is a super-skilled and versatile violinist, who plays in a number of different genres. Sometimes it's Transylvanian folk,...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2018

Review of Strata

Strata

Siobhan Miller

Top of the World

Songprint Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

It’s been two years since the Scottish singer Siobhan Miller released her first solo album, Flight of Time. By then...

Reviewed by David Forsdike in issue: May/2017

Review of Musica Fina

Musica Fina

Fernando’s Kitchen

Fernando''s Kitchen

Rating: ★★

A six-piece UK- based fusion band, Fernando’s Kitchen grew out of a meeting on London’s South Bank between two buskers:...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2014

Review of ERA

ERA

Gary Innes

Gary Innes

Rating: ★★★★

Evidently believing he might not already have enough on his plate with a new album from Mànran only just out,...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2017

Review of Boko a Ko

Boko a Ko

Saltpond City Band

Meet Me There Records

Rating: ★★★

Formed in 2015 by the Ghanaian veteran Ebo Taylor, whose 1970s catalogue has been extensively reissued over recent years, the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2022

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