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Review of Side Show

Side Show

The Burns Unit

The Burns Unit TBUCD001

Rating: ★★★★

Somewhere in the middle of a transatlantic crossing between Scotland and Canada, there’s a musical meeting point of players and...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2010

Review of Nipenthí

Nipenthí

Krama

Picap

Rating: ★★★

The group Krama draw on the musical traditions of both the eastern Mediterranean and the Iberian peninsula to create a...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Cabinet of Curiosities

Cabinet of Curiosities

The Hut People

Fellside Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

As amiable and unpretentious as they are hugely talented and entertaining, The Hut People are accordionist Sam Pirt and percussionist...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Astrakan Project: Inês

Astrakan Project: Inês

Simone Alves & Yann Gourvil

Karga

Rating: ★★★

This latest release from Alves & Gourvil's Astrakan Project is an album of nine songs with an accompanying illustrated book...

Reviewed by Tutku Barbaros in issue: May/2019

Review of Open Guitar (Volume One)

Open Guitar (Volume One)

D.C Cross

D.C Cross

Rating: ★★★★

The concept behind Australian guitarist D.C Cross’s latest album is intended as an antidote to the frenetic nature of modern...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: April/2026

Review of Senegal 70

Senegal 70

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Analog Africa

Rating: ★★★★

This trip back in time – some 40 years – is all courtesy of Analog Africa's crate-digger extraordinaire, Samy Ben...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of A Pilgrim's Tale

A Pilgrim's Tale

Seth Lakeman

BMG

Rating: ★★★

This year sees the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower setting sail with 102 passengers, mostly religious refugees, for a new...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2020

Review of Sister Pili + 2

Sister Pili + 2

Moreno & L’Orchestra First Moja-One

Sterns

Rating: ★★★★

While visiting my brother in Nairobi in 1983, we went to a nightclub and heard Batamba Wenda Morris (aka Moreno)....

Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of The Eastern Light

The Eastern Light

The Dardanelles

Dardanelles

Rating: ★★★★

The Dardanelles are a five-piece, consisting of Tom Power on guitar, Matthew Byrne on vocals and bouzouki, Emilia Bartellas on...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2013

Review of Indo-Arabic Variations

Indo-Arabic Variations

Baligh Hamdi & Magid Khan

Altercat

Rating: ★★★

As this 1980 album has been increasing in value over the years (original copies appear to go for around £50...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2022

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