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Review of Now We are Four

Now We are Four

Show of Hands

Hands On Music

Rating: ★★★★

Now that no one's taking live music for granted, it makes the release of a new live album from Devon...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2021

Review of Such Times

Such Times

Steve Tilston

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★

Steve Tilston made his first album, An Acoustic Confusion, in 1971, gaining a place in a cohort of exceptional guitar-playing...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2021

Review of Adenine

Adenine

Adenine

Lorimer Records

Rating: ★★★★

Focusing on themes of nature, landscape and the language of Scotland, harpist and composer Ailie Robertson's new release under her...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2021

Review of Across the Pacific

Across the Pacific

The South Pasifika Sound Project

South Pasifika Sound Project

Rating: ★★★

An Australian-based audio experiment, The South Pasifika Sound Project is the brainchild of musician-producer and traveller Paul Agar, who in...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: April/2021

Review of Le Chant Khyal ou l'Art de l'Imagination

Le Chant Khyal ou l'Art de l'Imagination

Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande

Inédit

Rating: ★★★

Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande is currently one of the leading female artists of North Indian classical vocal music specialising in the genre...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: April/2021

Review of Cuba: Music and Revolution – Culture Clash in Havana Cuba, Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85 Vol 1

Cuba: Music and Revolution – Culture Clash in Havana Cuba, Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85 Vol 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Soul Jazz

Rating: ★★★★★

This compilation, curated by Gilles Peterson and Soul Jazz's Stuart Baker, collects together some of the most exploratory items from...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2021

Review of The Sound of Telemark

The Sound of Telemark

Sigmund Groven & Knut Buen

heilo

Rating: ★★★★

Drive three hours west of Oslo and nature beckons. There are farms, trees laden with red apples in late summer,...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2021

Review of Kill Me or Negotiate

Kill Me or Negotiate

Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy

BFDM

Rating: ★★★★

Egyptian vocalist and trumpeter Abdullah Miniawy and French electronicist Simo Cell have been collaborating for just over two years, tinkering...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2021

Review of Native Music 15: Traditional, Folk & World Music from Latvia

Native Music 15: Traditional, Folk & World Music from Latvia

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Skani

Rating: ★★★

Throughout their history the peoples of the Baltic have, sometimes at great cost, maintained their national and cultural identities, in...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2021

Review of Planting Trees

Planting Trees

Kandiafa

Sans Commentaire

Rating: ★★

Abdoulaye Koné, aka Kandiafa, is part of a long line of Mande griots including great-grandfather Djigui and his uncle, Mama...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: April/2021

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