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Review of Tropix

Tropix

Céu

Six Degrees Records

Rating: ★★★★

It's easy to forget how much of a revelation Céu was when she released her self-titled debut in 2005. Seductive...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2016

Review of Até ao Fim

Até ao Fim

Katia Guerreiro

KGP Produções

Rating: ★★★

Até ao Fim marks a turning point in Guerreiro's career. But fear not: she's not quit fado. She's not exactly...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Mantra Sessions

Mantra Sessions

Bosse Skoglund & Zilverzurf

Diesel Music AB (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★

From the first track, as a free-blowing tenor sax solo jostles with a Hindu peace incantation over an ngoni (African...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2016

Review of Live at the Grand Pavilion

Live at the Grand Pavilion

Mabon

Easy on the Eye Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Welsh six-piece Mabon may not be well known on the English side of the border. It’s as if there’s...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Cladaich Loch Iù

Cladaich Loch Iù

Steven MacÌomhair

Steven MacÌomhair

Rating: ★★

Cladaich Loch Iù marks the debut of Gaelic singer and West Coast native Steven MacÌomhair and a pleasant enough, if...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2020

Review of Moda Velha

Moda Velha

Chico Gouveia

Chico Gouveia

Rating: ★★★

During the 20th century Portugal was under the gloomy spell of one of the world's longest dictatorships – highly conservative...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2016

Review of The Impossible Wild

The Impossible Wild

The Last Inklings

The Last Inklings

Rating: ★★★

The Last Inklings are Leonardo MacKenzie and David Hoyland – MacKenzie is a classically trained cellist with 15 years of...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2021

Review of Singing Between the Lines

Singing Between the Lines

Jassi Sidhu

Moviebox

Rating: ★★★

Two years after his CD and DVD live studio outing Ja s s i What Happened? comes a new release...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2012

Review of Rainy Season Blues

Rainy Season Blues

Lobi Traoré

Glitterhouse Records

Rating: ★★★★

The last session the Malian guitarist Lobi Traoré recorded before his death in June this year at the age of...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Out of My Own Light: The Margaret S Tait Project

Out of My Own Light: The Margaret S Tait Project

Louise Bichan

Swanbister Records

Rating: ★★★★

In 1950, Margaret S Tait, aged 25, set out on a solo trip from Orkney across the North Atlantic and...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

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