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Review of Sabor de Gracia

Sabor de Gracia

Sabor Pa’ Rato

World Village

Rating: ★★★

If you're familiar with the rumba catalana form of music, it may well be from listening to Ojos de Brujo,...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Tierra Que Arde

Tierra Que Arde

Burgos Buschini Duo

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

The music of Argentina's rural interior is all the things Buenos Aires' tango, blues, pop and rock are not: it...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2021

Review of Tibet: Lam la Che (On the Road)

Tibet: Lam la Che (On the Road)

Techung

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

The fragmentation of Tibetan culture over the last half-century has led, for better or worse, to an astounding variety of...

Reviewed by Tom Hamilton in issue: July/2014

Review of Diversions

Diversions

Dàimh

Greentrax CDTRAX343

Rating: ★★★★

Based in the Scottish Highlands, but with a line-up also drawn from California, Cape Breton and Ireland, Dàimh (pronounced ‘dive’,...

Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: October/2010

Review of Peripheral Visions

Peripheral Visions

Grant Gordy

Grant Gordy

Rating: ★★★★

Brooklyn-based guitarist-composer Grant Gordy's first album in more than a decade, Peripheral Visions, is an impressive addition to the chamber...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2023

Review of De Platino

De Platino

El Juntacadáveres

Zimbraz Records

Rating: ★

This Belgium-based band take their name (meaning ‘the bodysnatcher’) from a novel by Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguay's most celebrated fiction-writer....

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2014

Review of Reconnect

Reconnect

Sonia Aimy

Slammin Media Digital

Rating: ★★★★

Sonia Aimy sings, in her silky, melodious tones, ‘salaam alaikum.’ Set to gentle, chugging Afrobeat, the traditional Muslim greeting is...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2021

Review of HEISK

HEISK

HEISK

HEISK

Rating: ★★★★

Punchy drums, electronic flourishes, ear-catching grooves: this is instrumental trad-inspired tunes taken out of the pub and elevated to the...

Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: November/2021

Review of God Speed the Plough

God Speed the Plough

John Kirkpatrick

Fledg''ling Records

Rating: ★★★★

Our views of history are at best partial and often misguided. Historians go to great lengths to put us right....

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2011

Review of Liguriani

Liguriani

Liguriani

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

A strip of mixed people and sounds, Liguria lies in Italy's north-west, a region squeezed between rugged hill tops and...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: October/2011

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