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Review of La Part du Hasard

La Part du Hasard

L'Attirail

Les Chantier Sonores

Rating: ★★★

Twenty-three years, 12 albums, one theme: Xavier Demerliac's oeuvre is as steadfast as a train steaming down the track. Each...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2018

Review of African Revolution

African Revolution

Tiken Jah Fakoly

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★★

Tiken Jah Fakoly is perhaps Africa’s most gifted reggae artist, stepping deftly in the footsteps of fellow Ivorian Alpha Blondy....

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Kardeş

Kardeş

Divanhana

Kalan Müzik

Rating: ★★★★

The movement in Bosnian music known as new sevdah, a recasting of a traditional urban song style with Slav, Turkish...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2019

Review of Astro-Hungarian Jewish Music

Astro-Hungarian Jewish Music

Frank London Glass House Orchestra

Piranha Music

Rating: ★★★

The Glass House Orchestra takes its name from the Üvegház (Glass House), a building used by the Swiss diplomat Carl...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2017

Review of A Thousand Hearts

A Thousand Hearts

Cara Dillon

Charcoal Records

Rating: ★★★★

Five year's after Cara Dillon's last studio album, 2009's Hill of Thieves, comes A Thousand Hearts, a brittle and beautiful...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Aire!

Aire!

Caamaño & Ameixeiras

Microscopi

Rating: ★★

Galicia in north-western Spain is a world apart, comparable perhaps to Dingle in Ireland. Folk music traditions are passed down...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2021

Review of Harmonograph

Harmonograph

False Lights

Wreckord label

Rating: ★★★★

A big welcome back to Sam Carter and Jim Moray, whose debut album under the guise of False Lights, Salvor,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2018

Review of Gaelré

Gaelré

Gráinne Holland

Gael Linn

Rating: ★★★★

Gaelré sees Belfast's Gráinne Holland delivering a spellbinding follow-up to her 2011 debut Teanga na nGael. Reunited with arranger and...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of Sê

Gil do Carmo

Gil do Carmo

Rating: ★★★

It’s never easy when someone, unable to fight destiny picks up on the same craft their parents excelled...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2022

Review of Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn

Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn

Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn

Top of the World

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

While her husband Béla Fleck has been busily recording with African musicians, Abigail Washburn has forged a productive collaboration with...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2020

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