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Review of Um Violão na Madrugada + Apresentando Baden Powell e seu Violão

Um Violão na Madrugada + Apresentando Baden Powell e seu Violão

Baden Powell

Aquarela do Brasil

Rating: ★★★

This Baden Powell is not to be mistaken with the British founder of the Boy Scouts Association who went by...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2019

Review of Naz

Naz

Liraz

Dead Sea Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

When Liraz Charhi began writing her third album, she decided to do things differently. After an indifferent response to her...

Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: November/2018

Review of No More the Green Hills

No More the Green Hills

Janice Burns & Jon Doran

Janice Burns & Jon Doran

Rating: ★★★★

‘She Moves Through the Fair’, ‘As I Roved Out’, ‘Johnny, My Man’… Janice Burns and Jon Doran have chosen some...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2022

Review of Slåttesong

Slåttesong

Erlend Apneseth & Margit Myhr

Heilo Music

Rating: ★★★★

“It’s great to be at a point where it’s the music that’s in focus and not where it comes from.”...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2021

Review of Reclusive Rituals

Reclusive Rituals

Shay Hazan

Batov Records

Rating: ★★★★

In his first album for Batov Records, Tel Aviv-based jazz bassist Shay Hazan takes his sound in a different direction....

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2022

Review of Ramuntcho Matta

Ramuntcho Matta

Ramuntcho Matta

wewantsounds

Rating: ★★★

My, what a curious album this is. If you struggle to determine an overriding aesthetic, that's maybe half the point....

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/September/2023

Review of A Hajnali Csillag Ragyog

A Hajnali Csillag Ragyog

Tcha Limberger’s Kalotaszeg Trio

Le Jazzetal LJCD11

Rating: ★★★★

Violinist Tcha Limberger was born in Belgium to a Romani Gypsy father. His last disc, reviewed in Songlines #60, was...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2010

Review of The Life & Times Of…

The Life & Times Of…

The Hot 8 Brass Band

Top of the World

Tru Thoughts

Rating: ★★★★★

The Hot 8 Brass Band have every right to sing the blues. Forced to flee New Orleans due to Hurricane...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Algo-Ritmo: Mexican Institute of Sound Hits 2004-2024

Algo-Ritmo: Mexican Institute of Sound Hits 2004-2024

Mexican Institute of Sound

Soy Sauce

Rating: ★★★★

This compilation of 24 songs spans the two-decade career of Mexican Institute of Sound, aka Camilo Lara. Named as one...

Reviewed by Jenna Mackle in issue: May/2024

Review of Calypso Craze 1956-57 and Beyond

Calypso Craze 1956-57 and Beyond

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Bear Family Records (6 CDs, DVD & book)

Rating: ★★★★★

Forty-year-old Bear Family Records is a German label renowned for digging deeply into the country, blues and rock’n’roll archives, and...

Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

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