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Review of Tres Golpes

Tres Golpes

Perrate

Lovemonk

Rating: ★★★

Perrate is about as traditional a flamenco artist as you can imagine. From Utrera in Andalucía, the family dynasty includes...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: July/2022

Review of Wheels of the World

Wheels of the World

Granny's Attic

Grimdon Records

Rating: ★★★★

This English folk trio may be young (they're only in their early 20s) but they're already celebrating a decade of...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2019

Review of Forever is 4 You

Forever is 4 You

Malawi Mouse Boys

IRL

Rating: ★★

This could just as well be by a Malawi Mouse Boy, rather than Boys, as the music is so minimalist...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: May/2016

Review of Digital Kabar

Digital Kabar

VARIOUS ARTISTS

InFiné

Rating: ★★★

Since the 1990s, maloya – the quasi-religious, deeply political Creole music of La Réunion that was famously banned by the...

Reviewed by Tim Clarke-Romain in issue: November/2019

Review of Imam Baildi

Imam Baildi

Imam Baildi

Kukin Music 5099923680425

Rating: ★★★★

This is a great album, with a great idea behind it: take recordings of Greek popular songs of the 40s...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2010

Review of The Stray Birds

The Stray Birds

The Stray Birds

Stray Birds

Rating: ★★★

The music of The Stray Birds is derived from the soft, delicate underbelly of the traditional American string band. The...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of The Burial of Kojo

The Burial of Kojo

Blitz the Ambassador

Direct Current MGMT

Rating: ★★★★

Blitz the Ambassador is a Ghanaian American visual artist, MC and bandleader with a clutch of interesting, forward-looking albums under...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2019

Review of Olagón

Olagón

Eighth Blackbird

Cedille

Rating: ★★★★

Inspired by the ancient Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, the story being recast by poet Paul Muldoon as a caustic,...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2018

Review of While You Were Slumbering

While You Were Slumbering

Joseph Decosimo

Top of the World

Sleepy Cat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Expert fiddler and banjoist and scholar of southern Appalachian music, Tennessee native Joseph Decosimo bears the legacy of the Cumberland...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/February/2023

Review of No Summer

No Summer

Cinder Well

Free Dirt Records

Rating: ★★★

Welcome to the Radie Peat academy of drone singing, for the powerful example of Lankum and how they have turned...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

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