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Review of Ketan

Ketan

Blay Ambolley

Agogo Records

Rating: ★★★★

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is a highlife singer and multi-instrumentalist from the coastal city of Sekondi-Takoradi in the western region of Ghana....

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2017

Review of Dead Man's Dance

Dead Man's Dance

Alaw

Taith Records

Rating: ★★★

Guitarist Dylan Fowler, accordionist Jamie Smith and violinist Oliver Wilson-Dickson have all worked together on projects such as The Devil's...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2017

Review of A Day a Month

A Day a Month

Mairearad Green & Mike Vass

Buie Records

Rating: ★★★★

It is hard to believe that A Day a Month is the first collaboration of those ubiquitous stalwarts of the...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2017

Review of Windrose

Windrose

The Routes Quartet

Routes Records

Rating: ★★★

A fair few classical string quartets – most recently the Danish String Quartet – have developed traditional music side projects....

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: November/2017

Review of Sven Nyhus Kvintett

Sven Nyhus Kvintett

Sven Nyhus Kvintett

Heilo Records

Rating: ★★★★

The 85-year-old Sven Nyhus is a major figure in the history of Norwegian traditional music: a fiddler, composer and musicologist...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2017

Review of Ladilikan

Ladilikan

Trio da Kali & Kronos Quartet

World Circuit

Rating: ★★★★★

This album is a sublime meeting of two superb chamber groups. On the one hand there is San Francisco's string...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2017

Review of Strangers

Strangers

The Young'Uns

Hereteu Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Teesside vocal trio of Sean Cooney, David Eagle and Michael Hughes have captured hearts – and awards – with...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: November/2017

Review of Bon Bon

Bon Bon

Dai & the Ramblers

Just Peachy Records

Rating: ★★★★

Somewhere in the polyglot roots garden, twined between Cajun, indie-folk, R&B, Gypsy jazz and a few other things, reside Dai...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2017

Review of African Salsa Orchestra

African Salsa Orchestra

African Salsa Orchestra

L''Oreille en Friche

Rating: ★★★★

This eponymous debut celebrates three years since the African Salsa Orchestra was formed by Michel Pinheiro, long-time Beninese leader of...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2017

Review of London Stories

London Stories

Maciek Pysz & Gianluca Corona

33 Records

Rating: ★★

Maciek Pysz (from Poland) and Gianluca Corona (from Italy) first played together in 2012, at an East London jam session....

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2017

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