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Review of The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Salsa

The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Salsa

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

Whether or not the odd trippy fuzz guitar, some intergalactic electronic keyboards and a dash of echo really qualifies as...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of De Par en Par

De Par en Par

Marcela Arroyo

Double Moon

Rating: ★★

This Swiss-based Argentinian singer-songwriter takes some of the moody melodrama of tango and a clod of the earthiness of her...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2022

Review of Gal’üünx wil lu Holtga Liimi

Gal’üünx wil lu Holtga Liimi

Saltwater Hank

Saltwater Hank

Rating: ★★★★

Jeremy Pahl is the birth name of guitarist and fiddler Saltwater Hank, a member of the Ts’msyen group of First...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: October/2023

Review of Maqeda

Maqeda

Atse Tewodros Project

Galileo MC

Rating: ★★★

The Atse Tewodros Project is the brainchild of singer Gabriella Ghermandi, and the project’s second album is a tribute to...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: September/2024

Review of Folklórica

Folklórica

Lars Bech Pilgaard

momeatdadrecords

Rating: ★★★

Folklórica is a dispatch from the world of Danish experimental guitar. It contends that the instrument has under-explored potential, which...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: September/2024

Review of Alé: Iberian Chants

Alé: Iberian Chants

Libérica & Manel Fortià

Segell Microscopi

Rating: ★★★

Combine jazz, improv, Iberian folk and flamenco and stand back for a restless, roaming set that opens with a Catalan...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2025

Review of Turn O Spinning Wheel

Turn O Spinning Wheel

Mishra & Deepa Shakthi

Shedbuilt Records

Rating: ★★★★

Sheffield’s storied musical pedigree is further burnished by Mishra, a folk collective supplying a beguiling ‘Indo-fusion’. The group deftly bring...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2025

Review of This is the Place

This is the Place

Hartwin

Trad Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Hartwin is diatonic accordionist Hartwin Dhoore, here joined by violinist Pavel Souvandjiev and cellist Flavia Escartin, balancing the worlds of...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2026

Review of A’ Chailleach

A’ Chailleach

Kim Carnie

Càrn Records

Rating: ★★★★

Gaelic singer Kim Carnie’s A’ Chailleach is, to quote, “a concept record rooted in female folklore, spell work and hidden...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: January/2026

Review of Oye Mujer

Oye Mujer

Ladama

Top of the World

Six Degrees Records

Rating: ★★★★

Pan-American musicians have got more chance of creating peace and prosperity than the region’s politicians. Perhaps the latter can call...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2020

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