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Review of Radiant Others

Radiant Others

Dan Blacksberg

Dan Blacksberg

Rating: ★★★

We are, perhaps, most familiar with the sound of a clarinet or violin taking the lead in instrumental klezmer music....

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2018

Review of Seinn

Seinn

Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac

Turtlemusik

Rating: ★★★★

For lovers of traditional Nova Scotian folk music, it doesn't get much better than this collaboration between Scottish Gaelic singer...

Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: March/2013

Review of Touki

Touki

Modou Touré

ARC Music

Rating: ★★

Senegalese singer Modou Touré has big shoes to fill as the son of Ousmane Touré, lead singer of the legendary...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2020

Review of Pesme iz Jasenovca (Songs from Jasenovac)

Pesme iz Jasenovca (Songs from Jasenovac)

Smilja Kostur

WMAS Records

Rating: ★★★★

‘Emergency ethnomusicology,’ as they call it, is a set of urgent interventions needing to be taken to record or preserve...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: June/2017

Review of Baile Bucanero

Baile Bucanero

Ondatrópica

Soundway Records

Rating: ★★★

The first Ondatrópica album was recorded in Colombia's legendary Discos Fuentes recording studio. Unfortunately – criminally, in fact – that...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2017

Review of Alma

Alma

Carminho

EMI

Rating: ★★★★

It’s hard to say why Carminho’s second effort seems a little pale alongside her debut, Fado from 2009. Perhaps the...

Reviewed by Gongalo Frota in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of Archivo Pittoresco

Archivo Pittoresco

Lula Pena

Crammed Discs

Rating: ★★★

Having released albums in 1998, 2010 and now January 2017, Portuguese singer-songwriter-musician Lula Pena is by no means prolific. She...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2017

Review of Mezclatotäl

Mezclatotäl

Komasi

Yapa

Rating: ★★

The one thing you cannot accuse Komasi of is a lack of ambition. Respectively from France, Burkina Faso and Chile,...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2021

Review of Aman

Aman

Nawal

Editions Jade

Rating: ★★★

It's not often that you hear music from the Comoros, and this reissue of singer and gambusi (oud-like lute) player...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2017

Review of My Design, On Others' Lives

My Design, On Others' Lives

Estère

Estere

Rating: ★★★★

Based in New Zealand's music capital Wellington, Estère Dalton is a young producer- musician who's created her own bedroom-based ‘electric...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

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