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Review of O’Neill's Tunes

O’Neill's Tunes

Dan Walsh

Rooksmere Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Starting life as a book, it was inevitable that Dan Walsh would end up recording his dream project, O’Neill's Tunes....

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: May/2023

Review of Callejera

Callejera

La Perla

Top of the World

Mambo Negro Records

Rating: ★★★★

La Perla have established themselves so insidiously into the fabric of contemporary Colombian music that it’s hard to believe this...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/February/2023

Review of White African Power

White African Power

Tanzania Albinism Collective

Six Degrees

Rating: ★★★

It's a bold and ambitious idea to enter an isolated community who have no experience of singing and ask them...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: August/2017

Review of The Vortex Sessions

The Vortex Sessions

Benjamim Taubkin & Adriano Adewale

Núcleo Contemporâneo

Rating: ★★★

For the past decade and a half, Benjamim Taubkin's São Paulo-based Núcleo Contemporàneo label has been quietly nurturing some of...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2013

Review of You Etched Your Face in Mine

You Etched Your Face in Mine

Tárkány Müvek

PANKK

Rating: ★★★

There seems to be a bit of a boom in the Hungarian folk scene right now, with some interesting new...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of The Lions We Are

The Lions We Are

Dantchev:Domain | DANTCHEV:DOMAIN

Glomama Music

Rating: ★★★

Atmospheric and cinematic, The Lions We Are is a journey across spaces and sensations. Permeated by a playful experimentalism, this...

Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Ingoma

Ingoma

Na Lengo

Ozella Records

Rating: ★★★

The Spanish guitarist Gerard Guse and the Kenyan singer Denis Inyani met in Ibiza – where they both now live...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2017

Review of Ffiniau

Ffiniau

Bethan Nia

Pili Pala Records

Rating: ★★★

Ffiniau is Welsh for ‘borders’ and harpist and singer Bethan Nia’s debut album explores the boundaries that exist between people,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2021

Review of Benvinguts al Llarg Viatge

Benvinguts al Llarg Viatge

Txarango

Discmedi Blau

Rating: ★★★

Catalan band Txarango have been hailed as the grupo revelación, or next big thing, in the Spanish press. Taking their...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2013

Review of Jūrėse

Jūrėse

Saulius Petreikis

Saulės Muzika

Rating: ★★★

With its New Agey, Celtic feel, at times Jūrėse (meaning ‘In the Lagoon’, referencing his home region) sounds almost like...

Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

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