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Review of Mountains of Tongues: Musical Dialects of the Caucasus

Mountains of Tongues: Musical Dialects of the Caucasus

VARIOUS ARTISTS

LM Duplication DIGITAL ONLY

Rating: ★★★

The Caucasus mountains on the borders of Europe and Asia are a dramatic mosaic of landscapes and cultures. Alongside the...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of Peacock

Peacock

Dr L Subramaniam & Roby Lakatos

Top of the World

Avanti Classic

Rating: ★★★★

The meeting of two virtuoso violinists from different genres is always interesting. Roby Lakatos is from a long dynasty of...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2020

Review of Mim Ê Bô

Mim Ê Bô

Tito Paris

Ruela Music

Rating: ★★★★

It has been a long wait for Tito Paris to end his self-imposed recording silence of 15 years. A key...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2018

Review of To Belfast...

To Belfast...

Conor Caldwell

conorcaldwellmusic.com

Rating: ★★★★

A ruminative opening introduces swelling overdubbed violins; Conor Caldwell's fiddle melody-line rides atop their bank of drones much like the...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Review of Diamond Days

Diamond Days

Brooks Williams

Red Guitar Blue Music

Rating: ★★★

Diamond Days may be his first solo album in four years but Brooks Williams is no slouch. Since 2020’s Work...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2024

Review of Kai Tu Užaha?

Kai Tu Užaha?

Hilja Gronfors & Latso Dzinta

Global Music Centre

Rating: ★★★★

I thought I was familiar with most forms of Gypsy music but this album, recorded by the Finnish Roma singer...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2012

Review of Encyclopedia of Arto

Encyclopedia of Arto

Arto Lindsay

Ponderosa Music & Art

Rating: ★★★★

A founding member of seminal New York ‘no wave’ band DNA and long a guitar-shredding pivot of New York's downtown...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2014

Review of Alakazam

Alakazam

Boom Pam

Audio Montage

Rating: ★★★★

It's a good rule of thumb to dismiss albums that have the phrase ‘shake that ass’ on more than one...

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: June/2012

Review of Dog With A Rope

Dog With A Rope

Quantic Presenta: Flowering Inferno

Top of the World

Tru Thoughts

Rating: ★★★★

He might be plain old Will Holland to the authorities, but the man known as Quantic has burned his stage...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of You Have Already Gone to the Other World

You Have Already Gone to the Other World

A Hawk and a Hacksaw

LM Duplication

Rating: ★★★★

The New Mexico-based duo of Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost have spent the last year touring their live score for...

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: June/2013

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