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Review of Bilingua

Bilingua

Eithne Ní Uallacháin

Gael Linn

Rating: ★★★★

Sung in Irish and English, Eithne Ní Uallacháin's posthumous solo debut is a thing of rich and rare beauty. Drawn...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Cimbalomduó

Cimbalomduó

Kálmán Balogh & Miklós Lukács

Folk Europa FECD 045

Rating: ★★★

The subtitle of this disc – ‘Cimbalom for Four Hands’ – is slightly misleading. It suggests cimbalom duets on one...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2010

Review of Queens & Kings

Queens & Kings

African Connection

Sounds of Subterrania

Rating: ★★★

This is the debut recording from an Afrobeat and highlife band formed in 2016, comprised of musicians from Ghana, the...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2018

Review of L'Aurore

L'Aurore

Bonsoir, Catin

Valcour Records

Rating: ★★★

You could think of this as a good dance hall disc, a souvenir of a summer's night spent in the...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: November/2017

Review of Stolen From God

Stolen From God

Reg Meuross

Hatsongs Records

Rating: ★★★★

This 15th solo album from award-winning singer-songwriter Reg Meuross represents the fruits of over four years of research focusing on...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2023

Review of Oberlin 1968

Oberlin 1968

The Young Tradition

Fledg’ling Records

Rating: ★★★★

It’s the 1960s. They wear swinging, Carnaby Street clobber. Their performances are famously forthright and intense, yet funny and entertaining....

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Qanat

Qanat

Misagh Joolaee & Sebastian Flaig

Pilgrims of Sound

Rating: ★★★★

A collaboration between Iranian kamancheh (spike fiddle) player Misagh Joolaee and German percussionist Sebastian Flaig, this album explores new instrumental...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Trikitixaren Historia Txiki Bat

Trikitixaren Historia Txiki Bat

Kepa Junkera & Sorginak

Fol Musica

Rating: ★★★★

Kepa Junkera will be 50 in April. He has been playing trikitixa, the effervescent diatonic accordion music of the Basques,...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Les Bushinengé: Nèg Mawon de Guyane

Les Bushinengé: Nèg Mawon de Guyane

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

The Bushinengé people from French Guiana and Suriname are descended from escaped slaves who fled to the Amazon and intermarried...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019

Review of Till April is Dead: A Garland of May

Till April is Dead: A Garland of May

Lisa Knapp

Top of the World

Ear to the Ground

Rating: ★★★★

In these garlands for May, Lisa Knapp sounds ardent and pure, driven by purpose and conviction. You can tell these...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2017

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