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Review of Working in Wood

Working in Wood

Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow

Red Guitar Blue Music

Rating: ★★★

Don’t get me wrong: this album’s fine. It’s well-played, pleasant to listen to and seems to have its heart in...

Reviewed by Paul Slade in issue: April/2026

Review of Notes to Self

Notes to Self

Catrin Finch

bendigedig

Rating: ★★★★★★★★

The Welsh harpist’s first solo album in a decade – following her stunning albums and tours with Seckou Keita and...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2026

Review of Un Ballo Liscio Vol 2

Un Ballo Liscio Vol 2

Riccardo Tesi & Claudio Carboni

EGEA

Rating: ★★★★

Tesi, a specialist of the organetto, after 30 years produces another tribute to ballo liscio, a hugely popular form of...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: August/2024

Review of Luna, Cera e Vino

Luna, Cera e Vino

Brigan

Liburia Records

Rating: ★★★

From southern Italy comes what is described as a “dreamlike journey through memories, recollections and new images” of the ancient...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2025

Review of Boss Morris

Boss Morris

Boss Morris

Boss Morris

Rating: ★★★★

The self-titled debut from Boss Morris soars with all the melancholy folk beauty of a Red Kite in a wintry...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: April/2025

Review of Ginhawa

Ginhawa

Ruhiya

Ruhiya

Rating: ★★★

Ruhiya is a British-Filipino singer, songwriter, and sound healing practitioner. For her debut release, Ginhawa, which means ‘Breath’ in her...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: December/2022

Review of Tamotaït

Tamotaït

Tamikrest

Top of the World

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

If the mighty Tinariwen are the gate-opening Beatles of Touareg guitar music and Songhoy Blues are the genre's answer to...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2020

Review of Kosmopolítēs

Kosmopolítēs

Mambe

Top of the World

Happy Duck

Rating: ★★★★★

How global do you like to take your grooves? Mexican DJ Danochilango and Colombian singer and musician Mambe style themselves...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2019

Review of The Rough Guide to Latin Rare Groove

The Rough Guide to Latin Rare Groove

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★

The Rough Guide series may have come fairly late to the tropical vinyl-mining party, but better late than never. And...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2014

Review of Affinity

Affinity

Atlas

Ropeadope Records

Rating: ★★★★

Atlas are two natives of Limerick, Ireland: Cillian Doheny, guitarist and lynchpin of Moxie, and concertina player Cillian King. Their...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: August/2017

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