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Review of Balkan Projekt

Balkan Projekt

Cimbaliband

Top of the World

Fono Records

Rating: ★★★★

Cimbaliband are one of Hungary's great party bands. As their name suggests, the hammered cimbalom, as played by Balázs Unger,...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2018

Review of Hugsjá

Hugsjá

Ivar BjØrnson & Einar Selvik

Norse Music

Rating: ★★★

In 2014, Norway's Ivar Bjørnson and Einar Selvik were commissioned to create an album to mark the 200th anniversary of...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: November/2018

Review of Ejdeha

Ejdeha

Gordon Grdina's The Marrow

Songlines Records

Rating: ★★★

Gordon Grdina is a guitarist and oud (lute) player with one foot in Vancouver and another in New York. Originally...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2018

Review of Songs of Lake Volta

Songs of Lake Volta

Joseph Sheehan

Ansonica

Rating: ★★

Ten years ago, Sheehan, an American composer and assistant professor of music at Duquesne University, spent six months in Ghana...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2018

Review of Road to the North

Road to the North

Assynt

Garthland Records

Rating: ★★★★

Graham Mackenzie (fiddle), David Shedden (pipes/whistle), and Innes White (guitar/mandolin) have performed together as a trio for some years, but...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2018

Review of Action! and Intensified

Action! and Intensified

Desmond Dekker & the Aces

Doctor Bird

Rating: ★★★★★

Desmond Dekker brought Jamaican music into the international pop charts – first with ‘007 (Shanty Town)’ in 1967 then in...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2018

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 Sim

Sim

João Farinha & Fado ao Centro

Fado ao Centro Records

Rating: ★★

There are two great regional fado traditions. The more popular comes from Lisbon and includes pretty much every artist known...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2018

Review of Encounters

Encounters

Sigurd Hole Trio

Elvesang

Rating: ★★★

Encounters is a study in subtlety. Bassist Sigurd Hole, known for his work with the famously restrained jazz pianist Tord...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: November/2018

Review of Orion Congregation

Orion Congregation

Ahmed Ag Kaedy

Schneeball Records

Rating: ★★

Ahmed Ag Kaedy is perhaps best known as one of the four musicians featured in Mali Blues, a documentary examining...

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

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