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Review of Lorin

Lorin

Mizgîn

KOM

Rating: ★★★★

With the Kurdish question still a festering sore in Turkish politics it's hard to discuss this album in purely musical...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: October/2018

Review of We Have Tigers

We Have Tigers

Inga Liljeström

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★

I have mixed feelings about We Have Tigers, the debut folk album of the Finnish-English artist Inga Liljeström. Let's deal...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: March/2018

Review of Bem-Vinda Amizade

Bem-Vinda Amizade

Jorge Ben

Munster Records

Rating: ★★★

Even those with only a passing interest in Brazilian music will have heard the song ‘Mas Que Nada’ – a...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: May/2022

Review of Ngiwu Shwabada

Ngiwu Shwabada

Sibusile Xaba

Komos Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

The 2017 debut by the young, dreadlocked South African jazz guitarist and singer Sibusile Xaba, Unlearning/Open Letter to Adoniah, received...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2020

Review of Cretan Smash

Cretan Smash

Balothizer

Louvana Records

Rating: ★★

Greek folk tales set to thrash metal ‘music from hell’ (that’s how their fans, not their critics, describe them) may...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: January/2021

Review of Our Routes

Our Routes

Gypsy Hill

Batov Records

Rating: ★★

It 's somewhat quaint in late 2014 to get a new album that faithfully treads the Balkan beats formula popular...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Despite the Wind and Rain

Despite the Wind and Rain

Rachel Walker & Aaron Jones

Ròs Dearg Records

Rating: ★★★

Despite the Wind and Rain is the first album from the duo of Gaelic singer-pianist Rachel Walker and singer and...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: March/2023

Review of Lézard Vert

Lézard Vert

Zoun

Babani Records

Rating: ★★

Do you ever get the feeling that you've put on the wrong album? Lézard Vert is considered a foundational album...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2021

Review of Karin

Karin

Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gültekin

Top of the World

Muziekpublique

Rating: ★★★★

Armenian duduk (oboe) player Vardan Hovanissian and Belgian-Turkish singer and saz (lute) player Emre Gültekin recorded the beautiful album Adana...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2019

Review of Shalom Salam

Shalom Salam

Niominka Bi & N’diaxas Band

Makafresh MKF09

Rating: ★

Senegalese reggae singer Niominka Bi, whose name means ‘the fisherman’ in the Wolof language, has been around on the French...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Apr/May/2010

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