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Review of Tonkori in the Moonlight

Tonkori in the Moonlight

OKI

Mais Um

Rating: ★★★★

This writer interviewed OKI, the famed Ainu musician and producer from the Japanese island of Hokkaido, for this magazine some...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2022

Review of Danças de Porto de Mós

Danças de Porto de Mós

Aire

Sons Vadios

Rating: ★★★

Danças de Porto de Mós tells only half the story. The first album by Aire collects 16 new renditions of...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2022

Review of Images on Guitar

Images on Guitar

Baden Powell

MPS Music

Rating: ★★★★

The late Brazilian acoustic guitarist Baden Powell – yes, his father named him after the founder of the scouting movement...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2022

Review of Sounds from the Saray

Sounds from the Saray

Ensemble Marâghî

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

Apparently taken prisoner in his youth by marauding Tatars and sold at the slave market in Constantinople, Wojciech Bobowski (c1610-1675)...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2022

Review of Drawn to the Light

Drawn to the Light

Alaw | ALAW

Taith Records

Rating: ★★★

Fiddle player Oli Wilson-Dickson and guitarist Dylan Fowler have a lengthy history of working together, sharing projects including The Devil’s...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2022

Review of Are You Invested in the Economy of Love?

Are You Invested in the Economy of Love?

ELY

Algebra Records

Rating: ★★★★

While this debut release from London/Lefkosia-based project ELY features some of the UK’s finest contemporary jazz musicians – including AIM...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: April/2022

Review of Both in a Tune

Both in a Tune

Knight & Spiers

Top of the World

Peter Knight & John Spiers

Rating: ★★★★

Two giants of English folk from different generations come together with an album of tunes that follows on from their...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2022

Review of Soaring Wild Lands

Soaring Wild Lands

Dawda Jobarteh

Top of the World

Sterns Music

Rating: ★★★★

Dawda’s father Amadu Bansang Jobarteh was in effect the official kora player to Gambia’s first president, and he named his...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2022

Review of 20 Printemps

20 Printemps

Le Vent du Nord | Le Vent Du Nord

La Compagnie Du Nord

Rating: ★★★★

Le Vent Du Nord have been together for 20 years, and this, their 11th album, marks that anniversary. Calling it...

Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: April/2022

Review of Welcome to New Hoyle

Welcome to New Hoyle

Brad Fielder

Brad Fielder

Rating: ★★★

New Hoyle is a figment of Brad Fielder’s musical imagination. Inspired by a tiny, no-longer-extant town in north-west Oklahoma where...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2022

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