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Review of Jungle Run

Jungle Run

Nubiyan Twist

Strut Records

Rating: ★★★★

The ten-piece outfit Nubiyan Twist released an outstanding debut in 2015 and their second record, Jungle Run, offers up a...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: April/2019

Review of Thrace: The Paths of Dionysus

Thrace: The Paths of Dionysus

Rodopi Ensemble

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

The Rodopi Ensemble, comprising violin, clarinet, kanun, assorted percussion and lute plus vocals, was formed during the 1990s in this...

Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: April/2019

Review of Owerset

Owerset

Sarah-Jane Summers

Sarah-Jane Summers

Rating: ★★★

Surrounded by the bowed drones of Bridget Marsden's fiddle, Leif Ottosson's accordion and Morten Kvam's double bass, Sarah-Jane Summers' fiddle...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: April/2019

Review of If You Can't Stand the Heat

If You Can't Stand the Heat

Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★★

Frank Solivan's satin-smooth, mid-tenor voice soars right off the bat in ‘Crave’, the opening track of If You Can't Stand...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2019

Review of Ekuka

Ekuka

Ekuka Moriss Sirikiti

Nyege Nyege Tapes

Rating: ★★★★

Nyege Nyege Tapes is a small, obscure label based in Kampala, Uganda. They have released a small number of cassettes...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: April/2019

Review of Dr Strangedub (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Dub the Bomb)

Dr Strangedub (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Dub the Bomb)

Dub Colossus

Good Deeds Records

Rating: ★★

This was supposedly written as a response to the ever-mushrooming sense of doom commonly experienced thanks to climate change, Trump,...

Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: April/2019

Review of One With the Wind

One With the Wind

Branko Galoić and Francisco Cordovil

Galileo

Rating: ★★★

A couple of years ago, Branko Galoić and Francisco Cordovil happened to be in the same Parisian bar with live...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: April/2019

Review of S H I R A N

S H I R A N

S H I R A N

Batov Records

Rating: ★★★

S H I R A N was born in Israel but is half-Yemeni and half-Iraqi. And that comes through on...

Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: April/2019

Review of God is Not a Terrorist

God is Not a Terrorist

Ustad Saami

Top of the World

Glitterbeat

Rating: ★★★★★

Produced by Ian Brennan, the US music enthusiast whose wanderings have brought us the Malawi Mouse Boys and other treasures,...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2019

Review of Gallipoli

Gallipoli

Beirut

4AD Records

Rating: ★★★

The fifth album by Beirut, the musical vehicle of indie songsmith and world music enthusiast Zach Condon, certainly occupies an...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: April/2019

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