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Review of Some Other Land

Some Other Land

Adam Sutherland

Errogie Records

Rating: ★★★★

Perhaps best known for his work as fiddler for The Treacherous Orchestra, Session A9 and Peatbog Faeries, Adam Sutherland is...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2018

Review of Seu Jorge and Almaz

Seu Jorge and Almaz

Seu Jorge

Now Again Records

Rating: ★★★★

This covers album is a radical departure from a standard Seu Jorge samba-funk album and those expecting the swinging, soulful...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Toubab Soul

Toubab Soul

Alma Afrobeat Ensemble

Amphora Records

Rating: ★★★

As this solid debut testifies, Alma Afrobeat Ensemble is one of the tighter collectives in the genre. Fela Kuti’s template...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2011

Review of Heads

Heads

Osibisa

Repertoire Records

Rating: ★★★

As a rock-obssessed teenager, I bought Osibisa’s self-titled debut album on its release in 1971 and its follow-up, Woyaya. I...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Foggy Mountain Breakdown: A Bluegrass Tribute to Earl Scruggs

Foggy Mountain Breakdown: A Bluegrass Tribute to Earl Scruggs

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Rounder

Rating: ★★★★

A couple of years ago, Tim Austin, one of the founders of the Lonesome River Band, kickstarted a project that...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2012

Review of Blight and Blossom

Blight and Blossom

Blair Dunlop

Rooksmere Records

Rating: ★★★★

Leader of the new-generation Albion Band, son of folk¬rock guv’nor Ashley Hutchings and the child actor who played the young...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Songs of the Summer Realm

Songs of the Summer Realm

Jessica Victoria

Jessica Victoria

Rating: ★★

In 1960, Lerner and Loewe brought Camelot to the Broadway stage. In 1975, Rick Wakeman gave King Arthur the prog-rock...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: October/2020

Review of The Importance of Being Espetacular

The Importance of Being Espetacular

Thiago França Presents A Espetacular Charanga Do França

Mais Um

Rating: ★★★★

The avant-garde saxophonist, samba revivalist and Metá Metá co-founder Thiago França has been running the Carnaval charanga band A Espetacular...

Reviewed by David Katz in issue: November/2021

Review of Obacht! Musik aus Bayern 2

Obacht! Musik aus Bayern 2

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Galileo Records

Rating: ★★★

You will, no doubt, have heard of the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp and the American Alan Lomax. But...

Reviewed by Mark Espiner in issue: June/2011

Review of Addoh

Addoh

Oumar Konaté

Clermont Music

Rating: ★★★

On this, his debut album, guitarist and singer Oumar Konaté seeks to place himself among the ever-growing pantheon of Mali's...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

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