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Review of Crossing Roots

Crossing Roots

Ralf Siedhoff & Manuel Delgado meet the Karnataka College of Percussion

Farao Classics

Rating: ★★★★

Nineteen years ago, Spanish flamenco guitarist Manuel Delgado and German guitarist Ralf Siedhoff teamed up with South Indian Karnatic musicians...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Balimaya

Balimaya

Balimaya

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

In the Mande language, balimaya means ‘kinship’ or fraternity, and that's the approach that this Afro-jazzy quintet promotes in the...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Flash of the Spirit

Flash of the Spirit

Jon Hassell & Farafina

tak:til

Rating: ★★★★★

Jon Hassell is a contemporary classical minimalist musician who forged a deep engagement with music from India and West Africa....

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of De Kaboul à Bamako

De Kaboul à Bamako

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★

This is a compilation of somewhat random tracks from across the Middle East and Africa that have been packaged as...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Lina_Raül Refree

Lina_Raül Refree

Lina_Raül Refree

Glitterbeat

Rating: ★★

Producer and multi-instrumentalist Raül Refree made his name on the world music circuit by producing the acclaimed first album by...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Blurring Into Motion

Blurring Into Motion

Charlie Cawood

Bad Elephant Music

Rating: ★★★★

Whereas his lush debut The Divine Abstract was written and orchestrated over a seven-year period, London multi-instrumentalist and composer Cawood's...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Sojourns: Volume 1

Sojourns: Volume 1

Nava

Nava

Rating: ★★★

Following 2017's Tapestry, Nava are here again to prove that Irish and Persian music are not as unlikely bedfellows as...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of The Golden Lagoon

The Golden Lagoon

King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band

Kin-Aesthetic Recordings VINYL & DIGITAL ONLY

Rating: ★★

King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band (henceforth referred to as KLFSDB for the sake of trees and inkwells everywhere) present...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Blue Raag

Blue Raag

Samasa

Pan Records

Rating: ★★★★

A musical melting-pot, filtering Indian and Indonesian idioms, scales and off-kilter time signatures through blues-laced jazz, Blue Raag is the...

Reviewed in issue April/2020

Review of Párhuzamok és Kontrasztok

Párhuzamok és Kontrasztok

Muzsikás & Amadinda

Fonó

Rating: ★★★★

Amazingly Muzsikás' last record, The Bartók Album, came out in 1998 and was a Top of the World in #1....

Reviewed in issue April/2020

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