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Review of The Liquified Throne of Simplicity

The Liquified Throne of Simplicity

Širom

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Slovenian trio Širom are back with their fourth album fuelled by the search for a reconnection with the remote...

Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: June/2022

Review of Ushba: Georgian Harmonies

Ushba: Georgian Harmonies

Ensemble Mze Shina

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

The group Mze Shina (Inner Sun) is actually a French quartet – three men and one woman – specialising in...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of El Existential

El Existential

Grupo Fantasma

Nat Geo Music NGM006

Rating: ★★★★

The first thing that will strike most listeners as strange about the latest offering from Grupo Fantasma is to see...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Gwanwyn

Gwanwyn

Tŷhai

Taith Records

Rating: ★★★

Tŷhai's first album opens with ‘Y Nawfed Don’, a composition by guitarist Dylan Fowler inspired by an idea in the...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2019

Review of Bloom

Bloom

Siobhan Miller

Songprint Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Comprising ten classic Scots folk songs Siobhan Miller’s new album is a celebration of Scots song. But this is no...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2022

Review of Canibalismo

Canibalismo

Chicha Libre

Barbes Records

Rating: ★★★★

Peruvian cumbia (or chicha) is the rock‘n’roll of Latin music. More about feeling and attitude than other regional styles, it...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of A Famous Local Singer

A Famous Local Singer

Bobo Rondelli e L’Orchestrino

Ponderosa Music 6 Art

Rating: ★★★★

Perhaps it’s down to the peculiarities of the Italian education system, which refuses to unleash graduates until their late 20s,...

Reviewed by David Hutcheon in issue: March/2014

Review of Levanta Poeira

Levanta Poeira

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Jazz & Milk Recordings

Rating: ★★

Levanta Poeira is a puzzling musical object. Compiler DJ Tahira is a well-known vinyl digger based in São Paulo and...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2018

Review of Luangwa to Livingstone: Music from Zambia – Chikunda, Nsenga, Soli, Cewa, Tonga, Ila, Leya

Luangwa to Livingstone: Music from Zambia – Chikunda, Nsenga, Soli, Cewa, Tonga, Ila, Leya

VARIOUS ARTISTS

SWP Records

Rating: ★★★

This is a lavish four-CD set of fi eld recordings made by Michael Baird between 1996 and 2016. Baird has...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2020

Review of Shall We Hope

Shall We Hope

Tony Trischka

Shefa Records

Rating: ★★★★

Just when you think the cultural lodestone of America's Civil War has given up every drop of blood it could...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2021

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