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Review of Through the Eyes of the Sun

Through the Eyes of the Sun

Belonoga

Top of the World

Elen Music

Rating: ★★★★

Bulgarian singer Gergana Dimitrova will be familiar to many as a member of the women’s vocal ensemble, the Eva Quartet....

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2014

Review of Captain Rugged

Captain Rugged

Keziah Jones

Because Music

Rating: ★★

Captain Rugged purports to be the sound of a man on a mission, with Nigerian Afro-rock musician Keziah Jones adopting...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2014

Review of Journey Through Latin America

Journey Through Latin America

Classico Latino & Friends

Classico Latino Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Much like tributes and electronica cover albums, classical celebrations of other genres are liable to prompt highly musical yawns or...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2013

Review of Black Horses

Black Horses

Mae & the Midnight Fairground

Mae Karthauser

Rating: ★★

The Midnight Fairground is the magical conceptual world of singer, Mae Karthauser. Hailing from the sleepy banks of the Dart...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2012

Review of Watershed

Watershed

Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin

Dragonfly Roots

Rating: ★★★

This duo have made a big impact on the British folk scene – so much so that it feels strange...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: November/2015

Review of Ke Haber

Ke Haber

Nani Noam Vazana

Nani Noam Vazana

Rating: ★★

Israeli artist ‘Nani’ Noam Vazana sings and writes in Ladino, a Romance language spoken by Spanish Jews in the 15th...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: January/February/2022

Review of The Tambourine Man

The Tambourine Man

Xabier Diaz & Adufeiras de Salitre

Diaz & de Salitre

Rating: ★★★

A soft shake of the tambourine and a lonely drumbeat introduce ‘Xota Delira’, the opening track on this daring experiment...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2016

Review of Sandwood

Sandwood

Duncan Chisholm

Copperfish Records

Rating: ★★★★

Following on from two major artistic endeavours in recent years – the award-winning, multi-media project Kin and his Strathglass Trilogy...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: April/2018

Review of Aguilas and Cobras

Aguilas and Cobras

Brownout

Six Degrees Records 6570361162

Rating: ★★★

Stateside Latin funk often comes with psychedelic guitar chords, sexy vocals, big slabs of Yankee rock weirdness, and hot rhythms...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2010

Review of Kidal

Kidal

Tamikrest

Top of the World

Gllitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★★

There seems to be a kind of musical arms race going on among the numerous Touareg rock’n’roll bands who have...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2017

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