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Review of Vikings Memories

Vikings Memories

SKÁLD

Decca

Rating: ★★

SKÁLD take their name from the Norse balladeers who told tales of gods and men in the medieval past. The...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2020

Review of Egyéb Veszély – Danger Sign

Egyéb Veszély – Danger Sign

Fakutya Ensemble

MFB EV-CD03

Rating: ★★★

The opening track of this CD will need some explanation. There’s a snatch of the Monty Python theme tune on...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Uzelli Elektro Saz (1976-1984)

Uzelli Elektro Saz (1976-1984)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Top of the World

Uzelli Stereo

Rating: ★★★★

Following on the heels of its Psychedelic Anadolu selection from 2017, legendary Turkish label Uzelli has come out with a...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2020

Review of Too Long in This Condition

Too Long in This Condition

Alasdair Roberts & Friends

Navigator Records NAVIGATOR040

Rating: ★★★★

Supposedly Alasdair Roberts is a human male born in the 1970s, raised in central Scotland and a resident of Glasgow...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2010

Review of Tatavla

Tatavla

Trio Tatavla

Lejazzetal

Rating: ★★★★

Tatavla was a neighbourhood in Istanbul where the Greek-speaking community once performed a great deal of music, especially that of...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2018

Review of Kaladounia

Kaladounia

Kaito Winse

Rebel Up! Records

Rating: ★★★

In Brussels, Rebel Up! is a promoter, record label and DJ team, as well as being general champions of global...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: January/2021

Review of Bachata Haiti

Bachata Haiti

Bachata Haiti

iASO Records DIGITAL ONLY

Rating: ★★★★

While Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the same island they are divided – the French colonised Haiti while the...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2019

Review of Live at WOMAD 1985

Live at WOMAD 1985

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Party

Top of the World

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★★

Marking its 30th anniversary, Real World Records has released this album as a tribute to the late qawwali king, Nusrat...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2019

Review of Wolf Rune

Wolf Rune

Sinikka Langeland

Top of the World

ECM

Rating: ★★★★★

Being in a room with Sinikka Langeland is like being charmed into a northern forest under a night sky. Her...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2021

Review of Urgent Jumping! East African Musiki Wa Dansi Classics

Urgent Jumping! East African Musiki Wa Dansi Classics

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Sterns

Rating: ★★★★

We live in a glorious age, in which record companies are eager to open up their vaults in order to...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2016

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