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Review of Falling Out of Time

Falling Out of Time

Silkroad Ensemble

In a Circle Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Since the Silkroad Ensemble was established by Yo-Yo Ma 20 years ago, its ever- shifting ensemble have created a global...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/2021

Review of Borrowed Songs

Borrowed Songs

Ewan McLennan

Ewan McLennan

Rating: ★★★

It is rare to hear an album that confronts you with such a powerful sense of who a person is...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2020

Review of Se Quema el Mundo

Se Quema el Mundo

LPT

Bold City

Rating: ★★★★

LPT are a ten-piece Afro-Cuban band out of Jacksonville, Florida whose 2018 debut album, Sin Parar, won a clutch of...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Kologo

Kologo

Alostmen

Top of the World

Strut

Rating: ★★★★

Stevo Atambire is already a big deal in Ghana, a streetboy-turned-pop star whose local releases are full of synths and...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2021

Review of Where the World is Thin

Where the World is Thin

Kris Drever

Reveal Records

Rating: ★★★

Kris Drever’s solo albums don’t come that often – 2010’s Mark the Hard Earth was followed six years later by...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2021

Review of The Servants' Ball

The Servants' Ball

The Servants' Ball

D Wink Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

This exuberantly entertaining album came about after double bass player Ben Nicholls, reading about Sussex concertina player Scan Thester, found...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2020

Review of Tango Tango de Norte a Sur

Tango Tango de Norte a Sur

Las Chicas del

ARC Music

Rating: ★

We hear lots of rumours about Finland’s tango obsession but rarely get to hear its music. This innovative release features...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2012

Review of Crow

Crow

Mawkin

Mawkin

Rating: ★★★

The history of this Essex five-piece is a convoluted one. Formed a decade ago, this instrumental act is centred on...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2012

Review of Where I Come From

Where I Come From

Christy Moore

Sony/Columbia

Rating: ★★★★

If music provides a map of a nation's soul, then Ireland's foremost troubadour, Christy Moore, is a formidable cartographer.There's a...

Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Apr/May/2014

Review of Burden Lake

Burden Lake

Kevin Henderson & Neil Pearlman

Sungaet Records

Rating: ★★★

Burden Lake is the debut collaboration between Scotland’s Kevin Henderson on fiddle and American Neil Pearlman on piano, a beautiful...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2020

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