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Review of Sule Skerry

Sule Skerry

Hildaland

Adhyâropa Records

Rating: ★★★

The thought of a duo comprising nothing more than fiddle and mandolin made me doubtful. Surely these instruments have a...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

Review of So Far We Have Come

So Far We Have Come

Tamsin Elliott & Tarek Elazhary

Top of the World

Penny Fiddle Records

Rating: ★★★★

English multi-instrumentalist Elliott teams up with Egyptian oud player Elazhary on this absorbing and beautiful set combining the folk cultures...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

Review of Beehive

Beehive

Jono Heyes

Asphalt Tango

Rating: ★★★

Now here’s a real oddity. Jono Heyes is a New Zealander who apparently lives in a gypsy wagon on the...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

Review of Melodies of Light

Melodies of Light

Yosef-Gutman Levitt & Omri Mor

Soul Song Records

Rating: ★★★★

Having only recently reviewed Levitt’s Soul Song (in #190) I was surprised and delighted to see he’d released a second...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

Review of Outta Sync

Outta Sync

Don Letts

Cooking Vinyl

Rating: ★★★★

‘A soundtrack to my mind, with some wicked bass lines,’ is how Don Letts describes his debut album, recorded at...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

Review of Lullabies

Lullabies

Abigail Lapell

Outside Music

Rating: ★★★

Lullabies – cradle songs – a term derived from the middle English ‘lullen’ (lull) and ‘bye’ (near), and, much further...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

Review of Koinonia

Koinonia

Up High Collective

San-kofa Rhythm Records

Rating: ★★★★

The brainchild of producer duo Koen De Petter & Renaldo Maria, Up High Collective have existed in various forms and...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

Review of Waiting for Zion

Waiting for Zion

A08

Compost Records

Rating: ★★★

After an album and a handful of EPs, the duo Africaine 808 marks a step forward after a ten-year career...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

Review of In Ze Early Morning

In Ze Early Morning

iZem

Elis Records

Rating: ★★★

In Ze Early Morning is the second album of the nomadic artist iZem, who has become an expert in the...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

Review of Is What You Make It

Is What You Make It

TaxiCab Verses

Strolling Bones Records

Rating: ★★★★

Originally released in 2016, Is What You Make It is now being reissued. The project has a delightful origin story....

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

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