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Review of Lam Phloen Grade A Guy

Lam Phloen Grade A Guy

Angkanang Kunchai | Sonthaya Kalasin | Various Artists

em records

Rating: ★★★

Composer, producer and savvy businessman Doi Inthanon (named after Thailand's tallest mountain) has created a huge catalogue of songs and...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of W

W

Populous

Wonderwheel Recordings

Rating: ★★

Populous is a producer and queer activist from Lecce, a reggae-and-dancehall-loving town on the heel of the boot of Italy,...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Künh

Künh

Nağme Yarkın

Z Müzik

Rating: ★★★

Hailing from Istanbul, composer and musician Nağme Yarkın is a player of the klasik kemençe – the three-stringed bowed lyre...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2023

Review of Beneath a Level Head

Beneath a Level Head

Me & My Friends

Split Shift Records

Rating: ★★★

It is fashionable for Western indie bands to use the rhythms and riffs of African music to spice up their...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2013

Review of Rebetiko Gymnastas

Rebetiko Gymnastas

Vinicio Capossela

Top of the World

La Cupa/Ponderosa

Rating: ★★★★

Last hard being lured to his demise by the call of a siren at the climax of his album Marinai,...

Reviewed by David Hutcheon in issue: March/2013

Review of What Goes Up

What Goes Up

Chicago Afrobeat Project

Chicago Afrobeat Project

Rating: ★★★

Some years ago a collective of local musicians came together in a series of weekly jam sessions in a West...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2017

Review of The Moral of the Elephant

The Moral of the Elephant

Martin & Eliza Carthy

Top of the World

Topic

Rating: ★★★★★

We’ve heard them together in Waterson:Carthy, but this is the first time father and daughter have recorded as a duo,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2014

Review of Sleeping Spirals

Sleeping Spirals

Hannah James and Toby Kuhn

Top of the World

JigDoll Records

Rating: ★★★★

“I didn’t think I did need a cellist,” Hannah James says in a video describing the genesis of her new...

Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Resiliencia

Resiliencia

Taína Asili

Top of the World

Taína Asili

Rating: ★★★★

Taína Asili is a New York-born Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, activist, punk rocker, filmmaker and freedom fighter whose songs, videos, documentaries...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2019

Review of The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records (1917-1927) Volume One

The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records (1917-1927) Volume One

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Revenant Records/Third Man

Rating: ★★★★★

Think of this as a time capsule. But not just any time capsule. This is more like a 10kg, bunker-busting...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2014

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