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Review of Telegrafy

Telegrafy

Banda

Pavian Records

Rating: ★★

Active since 2003, Banda are one of the leading folk bands in Slovakia. This is their fourth album. The six-piece...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2019

Review of Such a Moon, the Thief Pauses to Sing

Such a Moon, the Thief Pauses to Sing

Peppe Frana & Christos Barbas

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

Since having met over a decade ago at Ross Daly's Labyrinth Musical Workshop in Crete, Peppe Frana and Christos Barbas...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: May/2019

Review of 3

3

The Gloaming

Top of the World

Real World

Rating: ★★★★★

There's no sign of The Gloaming losing that special touch on their third studio album, which opens with an intense...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2019

Review of Streams

Streams

Nguyên Lê Quartet

ACT Music

Rating: ★★★

The Paris-based guitarist Nguyên Lê is known for his distinctive style of world jazz. His previous albums combine jazz improvisation...

Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: May/2019

Review of Traversées

Traversées

Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko

Top of the World

Ma Case Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Jardins Migrateurs, the previous collaboration of Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko was described here as ‘ a disc of regal and...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2019

Review of Working Hands

Working Hands

Jenna Reid

Lofoten Records

Rating: ★★★★

Shetland Islander Jenna Reid is often seen involved with Blazin' Fiddles and fiddle quartet Rant, but here she has regrouped...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: May/2019

Review of GALW

GALW

Tinc y Tannau

Tinc y Tannau

Rating: ★★

You've heard freeform jazz. What about freeform, avant-garde, New Age, Welsh folk music? This debut from the duo Sianed Jones and...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2019

Review of Les Bushinengé: Nèg Mawon de Guyane

Les Bushinengé: Nèg Mawon de Guyane

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

The Bushinengé people from French Guiana and Suriname are descended from escaped slaves who fled to the Amazon and intermarried...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019

Review of Wavelength

Wavelength

Bene & Cormac

Bene & Cormac

Rating: ★★★★

Bene & Cormac are Glaswegian fiddler Benedict Morris, newly anointed as BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the Year,...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2019

Review of Visions of Iraq

Visions of Iraq

Ahmed Mukhtar

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Ahmed Mukhtar is a London-based Iraqi musician, renowned for his masterful playing of the oud. On Visions of Iraq, Mukhtar performs...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2019

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