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Review of Mediterraneo Ostinato

Mediterraneo Ostinato

Stefano Saletti & Banda Ikona

Finisterre

Rating: ★★★★

Stefano Saletti & Banda Ikona are back with their mixture of ancient and contemporary, loads of modal themes, rhythms and...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2022

Review of Yeshi Dolma

Yeshi Dolma

Tenzin Choegyal, Katherine Philp & Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra

Top of the World

Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra

Rating: ★★★★

Yeshi Dolma is the culmination of ten years of collaboration between Tenzin Choegyal from Tibet and Australian Katherine Philp. They...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: June/2022

Review of Agüeros

Agüeros

Sonoras Mil

Sonoras Mil

Rating: ★★★

One accusation that cannot be fired at Colombia’s Sonoras Mil, the project of Felipe Gómez Ossa, is a lack of...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2022

Review of Turas 1980

Turas 1980

Clannad

MIG Music

Rating: ★★★

Banish all thoughts of the New Age-accented, ambient-washed sound that made Clannad a crossover phenomenon following the attention-grabbing success of...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2018

Review of Lights in the Harbor

Lights in the Harbor

T'Monde

Valcour Records

Rating: ★★★

Originally a side project for accordionist Drew Simon, letting him play more accordion than he could in his ‘other’ band,...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2020

Review of Turmoil & Tinfoil

Turmoil & Tinfoil

Billy Strings

Hearth Music

Rating: ★★★★

Something must be wrong with my ears. Every advance review of Turmoil & Tinfoil, the debut album by Nashville-based fourth-generation...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2017

Review of Kosmopolítēs

Kosmopolítēs

Mambe

Top of the World

Happy Duck

Rating: ★★★★★

How global do you like to take your grooves? Mexican DJ Danochilango and Colombian singer and musician Mambe style themselves...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2019

Review of The Rough Guide to Latin Rare Groove

The Rough Guide to Latin Rare Groove

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★

The Rough Guide series may have come fairly late to the tropical vinyl-mining party, but better late than never. And...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2014

Review of Peru Bravo

Peru Bravo

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Tiger''s Milk

Rating: ★★★★

This latest offering of 60s and 70s Peruvian psychedelia showcases the work of a handful of bands who stylishly combined...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Ignite

Ignite

Will Pound & Eddy Jay

Concertone Records

Rating: ★★★★

There must be 45 minutes worth of music on Ignite, but it lasts less than half an hour, such is...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2016

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