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Review of The Innocent Left

The Innocent Left

Gilmore & Roberts

Navigator

Rating: ★★★

Following on from their 2008 debut, Shadow and Half Light, and 2010’s Up From The Deep, the duo’s third album...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of The Life of Birds

The Life of Birds

David Rotheray

Proper Records

Rating: ★★★

The guitarist of the Beautiful South has gathered together a formidable flock of folk talent for his debut solo album,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of The Ox and the Ax

The Ox and the Ax

Cath & Phil Tyler

Ferric Mordant

Rating: ★★★★

It's the little things that count. At first, you might think there's not much to the music of this highly...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: May/2018

Review of L'infinit

L'infinit

Francesc Sans

Microscopi

Rating: ★★

Francesc Sans is a much travelled Catalan player of the cornamusa, a type of gaita or bagpipes (cornemuse in French)....

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: November/2021

Review of Guitarra 66

Guitarra 66

To Trips

Mbari MBARI05

Rating: ★★★★

Best known for his work with Dead Combo, To Trips decided to go temporarily solo and record Guitarra 66. Dead...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Apr/May/2010

Review of Bandua

Bandua

Bandua

Frente Bolivarista

Rating: ★★★

In recent years, Edgar Valente has made a name for himself as a singer with the avant-folk act Criatura. Picking...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2022

Review of Kijombo

Kijombo

Yasser Thejeda & Palotré

Yasser Thejeda & Palotré

Rating: ★★★★

One might start by pointing out that the musicianship on this recording, the second from this joint Dominican and New...

Reviewed by Michael Galea in issue: April/2020

Review of Sissoko & Sissoko

Sissoko & Sissoko

Ballaké Sissoko & Baba Sissoko

Top of the World

homerecords.be

Rating: ★★★★

Back in the day, Djelimady Sissoko and Madou Sissoko were stalwarts of the National Orchestra of Mali. Eventually their sons,...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2019

Review of The Definitive Collection

The Definitive Collection

Edward II

E2 Music E2CD1001

Rating: ★★★

Sometime in the late 1980s I made a radio feature saluting the emergence of ‘New Wave English Country Dance Music.’...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Magnification

Magnification

Magnifico

Piranha

Rating: ★★★

Magnifico (Robert Pešut to his mum) is a Slovenian singer, guitarist and parodist. Already very popular in Slovenia, Magnification is...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

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