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Review of Compassion

Compassion

Lama Lobsang Palden and Jim Becker

Drag City

Rating: ★★

Jim Becker, a Chicago-based musician, and Lama Lobsang Palden, a Tibetan yoga teacher and healer now living in the US,...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: November/2020

Review of Live From Celtic Connections 2019

Live From Celtic Connections 2019

Transatlantic Sessions

Celtic Connections

Rating: ★★★★

Nearly a quarter of a century on and this group is still corralled by Shetland fiddler Aly Bain and his...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2019

Review of Godless Ceremony

Godless Ceremony

Islandman

Music for Dreams

Rating: ★★★

Islandman supplies slick multi-layered atmospheric down-tempo electronica with an ethno touch. Featuring musicians from all over the globe, the title...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: November/2021

Review of Mahal

Mahal

Irfan Ali Taj

A for Aleph Records

Rating: ★★★

Hailing from the Upper Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the north of Pakistan, singer and multi-instrumentalist Irfan Ali Taj’s...

Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: August/September/2022

Review of It All Came Round Again

It All Came Round Again

Fairport Convention

Madfish

Rating: ★★★★

Subtitled ‘On Stage and On Air 1982-90’, this is an extensive and intriguing history of what was a decidedly tricky...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: January/2025

Review of Accordeon: Musette/Swing Paris 1925-1954

Accordeon: Musette/Swing Paris 1925-1954

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Frémeaux & Associés

Rating: ★★★

Yet another hefty chunk of plastic from Frémeaux & Associés, this is the fourth volume of a series of compilations...

Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: March/2011

Review of On The Move

On The Move

Colin Farrell

Colin Farrell

Rating: ★★★

Firstly (as he must surely be heartily sick of hearing by now), this Colin Farrell is not the famously rowdy...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Chemsi

Chemsi

Hijaz

Zephyrus Records

Rating: ★★★

They might be a Belgium-based jazz-fusion group, but Hijaz turn out to be a little more intriguing than that might...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Ghetto Songs

Ghetto Songs

Frank London

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

In 2016 Frank London (The Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave etc) was invited to be artist-in-residence for the celebration of the...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2021

Review of Layers of Ages

Layers of Ages

Peter Knight's Gigspanner

Gigspanner Records

Rating: ★★★

Since he left Steeleye Span in 2013, Peter Knight's major musical preoccupation has been Gigspanner. (The name refers to that...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2015

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