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Review of I Dreamt I Was a Bird

I Dreamt I Was a Bird

Lucy Ward

Betty Beetroot

Rating: ★★★★

The Derby folk singer's third album follows the politically engaged Single Flame and builds on the traditional and original songs...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2015

Review of The Holy Coming of the Storm

The Holy Coming of the Storm

Cahalen Morrison & Eli West

Morrison & West

Rating: ★★★★

A musical duo that met in Seattle just a year and a half ago, Morrison and West have quickly formed...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: July/2011

Review of Almas Rebeldes

Almas Rebeldes

Che Sudaka

Cavernícola Records

Rating: ★★★

Sudaka is a racial slur for ‘South American,’ used as often ironically as pejoratively. With this album of upbeat, cumbia-influenced...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Review of Dawâr: The Universal Rhythm

Dawâr: The Universal Rhythm

Trio Chemirani

Harmonia Mundi

Rating: ★★★

Trio Chemirani are an impressive percussive force, comprising Djamchid Chemirani and his sons Keyvan and Bijan. Although they are based...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2015

Review of Decade: The Best of Lau 2007-2017

Decade: The Best of Lau 2007-2017

Lau

Top of the World

Lau Scotland

Rating: ★★★★★

How can one possibly put together a compilation of the most exciting, musically adventurous trio in British folk without leaving...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2017

Review of Balbalou

Balbalou

Cheikh Lô

Top of the World

Chapter Two Records

Rating: ★★★★★

It's five years since Cheikh Lô's fourth and final album for the World Circuit label but thankfully little has changed...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2015

Review of Nomade Orquestra

Nomade Orquestra

Nomade Orquestra

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★★

While it's surely purely coincidental that São Paulo's Nomade Orquestra formed in 2012, the same year Azymuth's José Roberto Bertrami...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2016

Review of Hollie Cook

Hollie Cook

Hollie Cook

Mr Bongo Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Music is in Hollie Cook's blood. Her father is Sex Pistols’ drummer Paul Cook. Having grown up in West London,...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: October/2011

Review of Eplemøya Songlag

Eplemøya Songlag

Eplemøya Songlag

NORCD

Rating: ★★★★

My first experience of Eplemøya Songlag was in an old fashioned wooden room in the old Bank building in the...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Na Vschod

Na Vschod

R.U.T.A.

Karrot Kommando

Rating: ★★★★★

R.U.T.A. is a jokey Polish acronym for the Movement of Utopia, Transcendence and Anarchy. Bringing together raw, rustic folk instruments,...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2013

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