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Review of Starlight Hotel

Starlight Hotel

Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers

Signature Sounds

Rating: ★★★★

Zoe Muth has been called Seattle's answer to Emmylou Harris, Kitty Wells or Iris Dement, depending on who you believe....

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2011

Review of Shalhevet

Shalhevet

Divahn

Divahn

Rating: ★★★

Divahn are a five-piece female group based in New York. The name comes from Persian divan or diwan, which has...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Flight on Light

Flight on Light

Manos Achalinotopoulos

Rattle Records

Rating: ★★

‘New Age’ and ‘tranquil’ are the first words that come to mind in describing this disc from Greek clarinetist Manos...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

Review of Sir Fôn Bach

Sir Fôn Bach

Llio Rhydderch

Top of the World

Fflach

Rating: ★★★★★

Llio Rhydderch was moved to arrange ‘Anhawdd Ymadael’, the penultimate tune of this very beautiful album, because the elegy ‘Marwnad...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2019

Review of Whistle Walks

Whistle Walks

Terry Clarke-Coyne

Terry Clarke-Coyne

Rating: ★★★★

Liverpool-born to Irish parents, whistle player Terry Clarke-Coyne spent the pandemic recording more than 150 virtual duets for YouTube with...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2022

Review of Cumbia Beat Vol 2

Cumbia Beat Vol 2

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★★

The garish cover looks like the sort of booty shaking bootleg you might pick up at the massive black market...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Tatamana

Tatamana

Batila

Galileo Music

Rating: ★★★

A unique and highly personal take on contemporary African music. Ange da Costa, known professionally as Batila, was born in...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: April/2022

Review of Nightshade

Nightshade

Bryony Griffith

Selwyn Music

Rating: ★★★

This is one of the most spare recordings I have heard in some time. It is, very simply, fiddler Bryony...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Cairo Moon

Cairo Moon

Al Qahwa

Al Qahwa

Rating: ★★★★

This exciting album is rooted in a rich Middle Eastern soundscape. It's performed by a Canada-based quartet of musicians hailing...

Reviewed by Shukri Habib Ali in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of Flowers Where the Horses Sleep

Flowers Where the Horses Sleep

Joshua Burnell

Joshua Burnell

Rating: ★★★

After recently focusing on traditional songs, Burnell’s sixth album finds him back with pen in hand. Joined by a collection...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: October/2020

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