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Review of Splendor

Splendor

The Other Europeans

Top of the World

Ethnomusic Records

Rating: ★★★★★

The music and musicianship on this recording is outstanding and the concept intriguing. ‘The Other Europeans’ refers to the Jews...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of Vitamia

Vitamia

Gianmaria Testa

Le Chant du Monde

Rating: ★★★★

Gianmaria Testa, moustachioed chan¬sonnier and former stationmaster, is a first-class Italian singer-songwriter. Five years have passed since his stunning Da...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of Nyckelharpa Solo

Nyckelharpa Solo

Didier François

Home Records

Rating: ★★★

The Swedish nyckel¬harpa is a keyed fiddle dating from the 15th century. In terms of its sound, think along the...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

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

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