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Review of Three Cane Whale

Three Cane Whale

Three Cane Whale

Idyllic Records

Rating: ★★★

This debut from multi¬instrumentalist trio Three Cane Whale is a warming cinematic landscape of music vignettes, recorded in a Bristol...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of The Klezmer Shul Live!

The Klezmer Shul Live!

Veretski Pass

Golden Horn Records

Rating: ★★★

Veretski Pass are a trio of top American klezmer musicians – Cookie Segelstein on violin, Joshua Horowitz on accordion and...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of Karton City Boom

Karton City Boom

Shazalakazoo

Eastblok Music

Rating: ★★★

Shalazakazoo are an electronic music duo from Belgrade (Serbia) and Karton City Boom is their debut album. A well-argued essay...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of Silêncio

Silêncio

Claudia Aurora

World Village

Rating: ★★

It’s not very clear what Claudia Aurora’s trying to do here. But whatever it is, it doesn’t seem to work....

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of Live in Amsterdam

Live in Amsterdam

Cristina Branco

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

What’s outstanding about this re-released first recording of Cristina Branco, from 1997, is not only that we get to hear...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of The Speech Project

The Speech Project

Gerry Driver

One Fine Day

Rating: ★★★★

That a mundane bit of tidying up can inspire a work of the origin¬ality and quality of The Speech Project...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of Pangea

Pangea

Chet Nuneta

Le Chant du Monde

Rating: ★★★★

Pangea is the hypothetical super¬continent, a land mass without borders, whose break-up gave us the continents we know today. Chet...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of Gi Mi Pols!

Gi Mi Pols!

Mjelva/Tamnes

Talik Records

Rating: ★★★

Having each been raised in distinct traditions within the Røros region of central Norway, Ole Jorgen Tamnes in the Brekken...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of The Fragile

The Fragile

O’Hooley & Tidow

No Masters

Rating: ★★★★

O’Hooley & Tidow were mightily impress¬ive at the Nowt So Queer as Folk concert at Cecil Sharp House, the home...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of Tiritando

Tiritando

Antonio Gonzalez El Pescailla

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★

Antonio Gonzalez Batista helped pioneer the fusion of flamenco and Latin rumba rhythms that has had such an enduring impact...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

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