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Review of Sound the People

Sound the People

Red Baraat

Rhyme & Reason Records

Rating: ★★★★

Brooklyn-based Red Baraat are an international, bhangra-infused version of the brass bands that accompany Indian weddings and festivals. Their latest...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2018

Review of Monkey Man & From the Roots

Monkey Man & From the Roots

The Maytals

Doctor Bird

Rating: ★★★★★

It's likely that everyone reading this magazine will have heard of Toots Hibbert, the 76-year-old legend of Jamaican music who...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2018

Review of Waltz for Better Times

Waltz for Better Times

Matti Kallio

Matti Kallio

Rating: ★★★

Over the past two decades Matti Kallio has worked on more than 100 records, whether performing, producing or composing. He...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2018

Review of Tuning into the World: Slovenia

Tuning into the World: Slovenia

VARIOUS ARTISTS

SIGIC

Rating: ★★★★

Slovenia is a small nation, with a powerful cultural centre in the capital of Ljubljana, and hence a place where...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: October/2018

Review of All Ashore

All Ashore

Punch Brothers

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★

It's impossible to talk about the Punch Brothers without mentioning Chris Thile. Should anyone still require an introduction to Thile,...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: October/2018

Review of Tidens Ekko

Tidens Ekko

Vingefang

GO’ Danish Folk Music

Rating: ★★★★

Vingefang are a duo comprising Lene Høst and Miriam Ariana, who are both former students of Scandinavian folk music at...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: October/2018

Review of August 1791

August 1791

RAM

Willibelle

Rating: ★★★

Led by Richard Morse, proprietor of the celebrated Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, RAM were last heard from before the disastrous...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2018

Review of Under the Rose Tree

Under the Rose Tree

Derya Türkan & Sokratis Sinopoulos

Music & Words

Rating: ★★★

As a disciple of Ross Daly and a player of the lyra (bowed lute) Sokratis Sinopoulos was always going to...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2018

Review of Nsimbi

Nsimbi

Nsimbi

Imara Records

Rating: ★★★

This is a collection of songs based on Swahili proverbs and performed by Ugandan-American duo Nsimbi. GNL Zamba is a...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2018

Review of Tebourba

Tebourba

Fanfara Station

Agualoca Records

Rating: ★★★

Fanfara Station may sound like the name of one of the Balkan brass bands they so clearly admire, but in...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2018

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