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Review of Null

Null

Mahmood Schricker

Mahmood Schricker

Rating: ★★★★

Null is an ‘electro Persian album inspired by electronic music, Persian traditional music and poetry’, as Toronto-based setar (lute) player...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Dža Dža Dzum

Dža Dža Dzum

Ot Azoj

AAC Records

Rating: ★★★★

Back in the 1980s, the writer Malcolm Bradbury wrote Rates of Exchange, an eye-wateringly funny novel set in a fictitious...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2017

Review of Aquarius

Aquarius

Joyce & Donato

Far Out Recordings FARO149CD

Rating: ★★★★

Antonio Carlos Jobim once called Joyce one of the greatest singers of all time – praise that the ageless Brazilian...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2010

Review of Fototse Racines Roots

Fototse Racines Roots

Teta

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

Claude Teta comes from a family of musical brothers who play tsapiky music for ceremonies and weddings. They live in...

Reviewed by Paddy Bush in issue: June/2012

Review of The Red Stoep

The Red Stoep

Nomfusi

Delicious Tunes

Rating: ★★★★

In South Africa, a stoep is a veranda of a house and any gathering on it creates an instant space...

Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: November/2021

Review of Sones Jarochos y Huastecos y Más

Sones Jarochos y Huastecos y Más

Hermanos Herrera

Top of the World

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Everybody knows at least one son jarocho, even if they don’t realise it, and chances are they heard it while...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2018

Review of Ipê

Ipê

Trio in Uno

Quart de lune

Rating: ★★★

This is the second release from the Paris-based trio comprised of Brazilians Pablo Schinke and José Ferreira on cello and...

Reviewed by Michael Galea in issue: July/2019

Review of Two More Hours

Two More Hours

Karan Casey

Crow Valley Music

Rating: ★★★★★

A departure from the traditional music she has performed and recorded for several years - which has included an album...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2014

Review of Innamorata

Innamorata

Andrea Terrano

Atlantic Jaxx

Rating: ★★★

The accompanying press release suggests this is ‘a perfect companion for driving around the Ibizan hills,’ and tunes such as...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: March/2017

Review of Moreland’s Ball

Moreland’s Ball

The Woohoo Revue

The Woohoo Revue

Rating: ★★★★

Melbourne ensemble The Woohoo Revue are one of those groups that’s impossible to categorise. Most would call them a ‘Gypsy’...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2012

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