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Review of Spider Tales

Spider Tales

Jake Blount

Top of the World

Free Dirt Records

Rating: ★★★★★

As a teenager growing up in Virginia, Jake Blount played guitar in funk and metal bands until one day he...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2020

Review of Brinca

Brinca

Paride Peddio & Jonathan Della Marianna

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

It is both odd and a real shame that Sardinia's richly vibrant traditional music culture isn’t better known internationally. But...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2016

Review of 3 for Joy

3 for Joy

Maddy Prior with Hannah James & Giles Lewin

Park Records

Rating: ★★★★

This is a true meeting of generations. Maddy Prior has a 40-year career behind her. Violinist and piper Giles Lewin...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013

Review of Traversées

Traversées

Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko

Top of the World

Ma Case Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Jardins Migrateurs, the previous collaboration of Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko was described here as ‘ a disc of regal and...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2019

Review of Al Nge Taa

Al Nge Taa

Jan Galega Brönnimann, Moussa Cissokho & Omri Hason

Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★★★

The Swiss woodwind player Jan Galega Brönnimann plays some of the lowest clarinet you’re ever likely to experience – on...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2016

Review of Year of the Funky

Year of the Funky

Bei Bei & Shawn Lee

Legere Recordings

Rating: ★★

The talented young guzheng player Bei Bei has teamed up, for her sophomore effort, with a very experienced producer and...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: August/2017

Review of Tentemozo

Tentemozo

Os Cempes

Fol Musica

Rating: ★★★

Due to certain stylistic similarities, Galician music is often lumped together with Celtic music and presented as two branches of...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of La Llorona

La Llorona

Chavela Vargas

Milan

Rating: ★★

While she could play the tragic heroine with a bleeding heart with the best of them, Chavela Vargas was also...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2018

Review of Bali 1928 – Anthology: The First Recordings

Bali 1928 – Anthology: The First Recordings

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Arbiter

Rating: ★★★★

If I told you this disc was recorded yesterday, you’d think it was the most cutting-edge thing you’d heard all...

Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: May/2016

Review of Holdvilágos (In the Moonlight)

Holdvilágos (In the Moonlight)

Napra

Folk Europa

Rating: ★★★★

Napra is a Hungarian folk band that deserves to be heard. They bring a rock attitude to traditional music with...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

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