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Review of Melting Pot

Melting Pot

Steel Pan Fusion

Steel Pan Fusion

Rating: ★★★★

If you think of steel pan music as nothing but boring standards by a bored-looking busker, then Melting Pot will...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of The Sound of the Soul

The Sound of the Soul

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Caprice Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Rarely do traditional Chinese instrumental recordings come in handsome packaging, with English and Chinese texts so well laid out. Rarely...

Reviewed by Joanna Lee in issue: March/2011

Review of Cavalluccio

Cavalluccio

Lalala Napoli

La Curieuse

Rating: ★★★★

Behind Lalala Napoli is the gifted veteran French accordionist and singer François Castiello of former Bratsch fame, who uses the...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: May/2021

Review of Who Say I Tire

Who Say I Tire

Segun Bucknor

Vampisoul VAMPI CD 123

Rating: ★★★

As a Nigerian musician, composer and bandleader who reached his peak in the early 70s, Segun Bucknor has inevitably been...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2010

Review of Crooked Tree

Crooked Tree

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway

Top of the World

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Want to know what 21st-century bluegrass sounds like? Crooked Tree, Molly Tuttle’s first purely bluegrass recording, is the answer. Recorded...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2022

Review of Daybreak

Daybreak

Sierra Hull

Rounder

Rating: ★★★★

Between Sarah Jarosz and Sierra Hull, there seems to be a surfeit of teenaged mandolin-strumming-singer-songwriter prodigies on the acoustic/bluegrass scene...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Inagwe

Inagwe

Mogu

Wantok

Rating: ★★★★

As a session player and band member, multi-instrumentalist Richard Mogu has been a mainstay of the Papua New Guinea music...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2012

Review of Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996

Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Light in the Attic

Rating: ★★★★

American label Light in the Attic, which specialises in publishing rare music, now release a compilation of Ukrainian music from...

Reviewed by Yurii Bereza in issue: December/2024

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