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Review of Both Sides of the Aegean

Both Sides of the Aegean

Hüsnü Senlendirici & Trio Chios

Doublemoon

Rating: ★★★★

Hüsnü Şenlendirici is Turkey's big clarinet star, famed for his glitzy virtuoso style and, unfortunately, a tendency for saccharine arrangements...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Aavartan – Dawn to Dusk

Aavartan – Dawn to Dusk

Kala Ramnath Aavartan

Kalashree

Rating: ★★★★

Kala Ramnath is both a traditionalist and an experimentalist in the Indian classical tradition. She is also quite simply one...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Šatrika

Šatrika

Čači Vorba

Top of the World

Oriente Musik

Rating: ★★★★

Čači Vorba is the name of the group, but it's vocalist and fiddler Maria Natanson who is the star of...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2016

Review of Flying into Mystery

Flying into Mystery

Christy Moore

Sony Music

Rating: ★★★★

Bowed but definitely not beaten by pandemic isolation, Moore responds with one of his finest offerings in years. Flying into...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2022

Review of The South African Meeting of Viramundo

The South African Meeting of Viramundo

Gilberto Gil & Vusi Mahlasela

Dreampixies

Rating: ★★★

After standing down as Brazil's minister of culture, the legendary singer Gilberto Gil undertook a southern hemisphere tour to Australia...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamso in issue: Apr/May/2014

Review of On the Spot

On the Spot

The Hot 8 Brass Band

Top of the World

Tru Thoughts

Rating: ★★★★

The Hot 8 Brass Band have experienced more hard times than most of us can ever imagine: gun-toting gangs and...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2017

Review of Presente

Presente

Bajofondo

Sony Masterworks

Rating: ★★

In 2003, two years after Gotan Project made electro tango cool, the Argentinian-Uruguayan collective known as Bajofondo Tangoclub debuted to...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2013

Review of Navarasa: Nine Emotions

Navarasa: Nine Emotions

Yorkston/Torne/Khan

Top of the World

Domino

Rating: ★★★★

When the Scottish folk singer and guitarist James Yorkston, double bassist Jon Torne and the Indian sarangi maestro Suhail Yusuf...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2020

Review of Mazes

Mazes

Harri Endersby

Ivy Crown Records

Rating: ★★★★

On her second album, Mazes, Harri Endersby subtly blurs the line between traditional and contemporary folk music, with added birdsong...

Reviewed by Charlie Long in issue: April/2020

Review of The Rough Guide to Flamenco

The Rough Guide to Flamenco

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network (2 CDs,)

Rating: ★★★

It is a huge challenge to do justice to an entire culture with a single CD. You have to decide...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: October/2013

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