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Review of Riptide

Riptide

Atlas Maior

Atlas Maior

Rating: ★★★★

This Austin, Texas-based band specialise in a mix of contemporary and progressive jazz with music from the Arab and Turkish...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Review of Tales from the Weeping Willow: Songs of Murder, Death and Sorrow

Tales from the Weeping Willow: Songs of Murder, Death and Sorrow

Naomi Bedford

Dusty Willow

Rating: ★★★★

Traditional folk songs – they’ve got a body count to put gangsta rap to shame. Naomi Bedford has had a...

Reviewed by Tim Camming in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of A l’ Ombre du Grand Baobab

A l’ Ombre du Grand Baobab

Mah Damba

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

The Malian griot Mah Damba has lived in France for many years and her music reflects her cultural cosmo– politanism....

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2011

Review of What News

What News

Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse & David McGuinness

Drag City

Rating: ★★★★

This is Roberts’ 12th solo album since 2001, and his fourth of purely traditional songs, following on from the excellent...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018

Review of Alegria de Viver

Alegria de Viver

Lula Galvão

Top of the World

Jazzline

Rating: ★★★★

Alegria de Viver is an entirely solo album by the esteemed Brazilian guitarist Lula Galvão. He is generally betterknown as...

Reviewed by Gabrielle Messeder in issue: October/2019

Review of Undersong

Undersong

Salt House

Make Believe Records

Rating: ★★★★

In the wild waters of the straits between the isles of Harris and North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2018

Review of Louisiana Sun

Louisiana Sun

Mama Rosin

Voodoo Rhythm Records

Rating: ★★★

Some years back, Mama Rosin, the high-octane punk Cajun combo from Switzerland, met Hipbone Slim & the Knee Tremblers, a...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Lummen

Lummen

Sirus

Kråktjärn

Rating: ★★★★

An album of depth and soul, this is an impressive debut for Sirus. There are strong influences from Scandinavia (the...

Reviewed by James Roriston in issue: November/2019

Review of A Cassowary Apart

A Cassowary Apart

Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers

Bedroom Suck Records

Rating: ★★★★

The world of ambient banjo is a small one. This was the joke that brought together two participants in the...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2021

Review of The Warrior Women of Afro-Peruvian Music

The Warrior Women of Afro-Peruvian Music

Just Play Peru

Just Play Peru

Rating: ★★★

Working this time in Lima, Peru, this album from the Just Play project – accompanied by a webisode for each...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: November/2019

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