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Review of Tincian

Tincian

9Bach

Top of the World

Real World

Rating: ★★★★

Singer Lisa Jên and guitarist Martin Hoyland delivered a superb debut album of traditional Welsh folk songs in 2009, fusing...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2014

Review of Forgotten Kingdom

Forgotten Kingdom

Jim Causley

Hands On Music

Rating: ★★★★

It's been more than a decade since Causley's debut album and his career has encompassed vocal trio The Devil's Interval,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2016

Review of Topspin

Topspin

Cardboard Fox

Cardboard Fox

Rating: ★★★

Cardboard Fox's music is striking for its lightness – a lightness of touch, that is, not of content. In this...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2018

Review of World of Pixinguinha

World of Pixinguinha

Hamilton de Holanda Quintet

Adventure Music

Rating: ★★

Hamilton de Holanda is a fantastically accomplished musician. As a player of the bandolin (15-stringed lute) there are probably none...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2015

Review of Anomaly

Anomaly

Jasdeep Singh Degun

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★

This is the first solo release from the British sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun. It features a large cast...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2022

Review of Rooftop Sessions

Rooftop Sessions

Dreamers' Circus

Top of the World

GO'' Danish Folk/Vertical Records

Rating: ★★★★★

The piano keys fall like drops of water, the violin soars like a gull over 0resund, while the delicate pluck...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Review of Concert Program

Concert Program

Penguin Cafe Orchestra | Simon Jeffes

Penguin Cafe

Rating: ★★★★

The orchestra that was the fruit of a feverish, food-poisoned dream in the south of France in the early 1970s...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Abri Cyclonique

Abri Cyclonique

Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★

For the last five decades, Polobi, from Guadeloupe has been drumming and singing gwo ka music in the Caribbean island's...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: April/2023

Review of Afro-Colombian Sound Modernizers

Afro-Colombian Sound Modernizers

Son Palenque

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★

South and Central America are dotted with communities made up of the descendants of African slaves who escaped their oppressors....

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Nine Decades Vol IV: A Night at St John the Divine

Nine Decades Vol IV: A Night at St John the Divine

Ravi Shankar

East Meets West Music

Rating: ★★★★

Ravi Shankar's widow Sukanya testifies in the liner notes to the particular ‘magical, transcendent experience’ of her husband performing in...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

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