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Review of Sujud

Sujud

Senyawa

Sublime Frequencies

Rating: ★★★★

Since 2010, avant-garde Javanese duo Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi have been conducting a series of sonic trials on the...

Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: May/2019

Review of Nostálgico

Nostálgico

El Muro Tango

Galileo MC

Rating: ★★★

The title of this album, Nostálgico, goes right to the heart of what tango represents: nostalgia and longing for what once...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: May/2019

Review of Territoires

Territoires

Le Vent du Nord

Top of the World

Borealis Records

Rating: ★★★★

Québécois supergroup Le Vent du Nord return with their tenth album having recently become a quintet with the addition of...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: May/2019

Review of The Sweet Primeroses

The Sweet Primeroses

Shirley Collins

Topic Records,

Rating: ★★★★★

An extraordinary and singular recording even 52 years after it first appeared, Shirley Collins' The Sweet Primeroses is one of...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2019

Review of Changeable Heart

Changeable Heart

Ruth Notman & Sam Kelly

Pure Records

Rating: ★★★★

Notman first hit the folk scene back in 2007 with her debut, Threads, leading to a nomination for the BBC...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2019

Review of The Reeling

The Reeling

Brìghde Chaimbeul

Top of the World

River Lea Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

The Reeling ends with the great singer and piper Rona Lightfoot, now 82 years old, giving a little laugh of...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2019

Review of Bahdja

Bahdja

Manuel Hermia & Kheireddine Mkachiche

Igloo Records

Rating: ★★

Though best known for jazz, Manuel Hermia's oeuvre traverses a wide range of musical genres and styles. The Belgian saxophonist,...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: May/2019

Review of Niafunke

Niafunke

Hama Sankare

Clermont Music

Rating: ★★★

Twenty years ago Ali Farka Touré made an album called Niafunke, named after his home town near Timbuktu on the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2019

Review of Con-tra-dic-shun

Con-tra-dic-shun

Megson

EDJ Records

Rating: ★★★★

What I like about the folk music Megson create is that it's alive. They don't try to mask the realities of...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2019

Review of Mycelium

Mycelium

Jacky Molard Quartet

Innacor

Rating: ★★★

Mycelium is (apparently) the vegetative part of a fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike filaments. The threadlike filaments...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: May/2019

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