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Review of Umbrellowhead

Umbrellowhead

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Megafone MEGAFONE112

Rating: ★★★

Come across this on a shelf and you’ll think you’ve found a new Bellowhead album. But what we have here...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2010

Review of School of life

School of life

Daara J Family

Top of the World

Wrasse 262

Rating: ★★★★

All great family stories are marked by rivalry and conflict as well as profound coherence. The last seven years in...

Reviewed by Katharina Lobeck Kane in issue: July/2010

Review of Laroyê

Laroyê

Àbáse

Top of the World

Oshu Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This debut album by Hungarian producer and multi-instrumentalist Szabolcs Bognár (aka Àbáse) is exactly what its title means in the...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: December/2021

Review of Black Tarantella

Black Tarantella

Enzo Avitabile

CNI

Rating: ★★★★

The Neapolitan composer, saxophonist and singer crosses paths here with a dozen world music artists, rock celebrities and prominent Italian...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of The Lucky Smile

The Lucky Smile

Rachel Hair

March Hair Records MHRCD002

Rating: ★★★★

The Lucky Smile is a sparkling recording centred around Rachel Hair’s pristine, beautifully detailed harp-playing, the tune selections by turns...

Reviewed by Debbie Koritsas in issue: October/2010

Review of Ibeyi

Ibeyi

Ibeyi

XL

Rating: ★★★

This is a curious and promising album from twin sisters working under the long shadow of their father Anga Díaz....

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: July/2015

Review of Transcendence

Transcendence

Mashkoor Ali Khan

Nimbus Records

Rating: ★★★★

Most Songlines’ readers will not have heard of Mashkoor Ali Khan, an Indian classical vocalist who sings khayal, an ornamented...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2017

Review of Noch Amul! Tango oyf Yiddish Vol 2

Noch Amul! Tango oyf Yiddish Vol 2

Karsten Troyke

Oriente Musik

Rating: ★★★

Karsten Troyke’s latest CD is a nostalgic tribute to the particular style of Yiddish tangos of the early 20th century....

Reviewed by Helen Beer in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Session A9

Session A9

Session A9

RAJ Records

Rating: ★★★★

It's hard to believe ten years have passed since Session A9 first burst onto the scene in with their raucous...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2013

Review of Turbines

Turbines

Tunng

Full Time Hobby

Rating: ★★★

Flux is the keyword in Tunng's story, from its 2003 beginnings as a loose East London collective through to the...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

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