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Review of Anda

Anda

Melingo

World Village

Rating: ★★★

Talent is sometimes about spotting an opening. After serving as saxophonist for Argentinian 70s legend Charly García and 80s new...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2016

Review of Do Claro ao Breu

Do Claro ao Breu

Sopa de Pedra

Lovers & Lollypops

Rating: ★★★★

Sopa de Pedra are a Portuguese vocal ten-piece that got together ten years ago – which some may know already...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2022

Review of The Art of the Kora

The Art of the Kora

Jali Nyama Suso

Ocora Radio France

Rating: ★★★★

This is an augmented reissue of the first commercial release of solo kora and griot music recorded in 1972. The...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: April/2020

Review of Three of Us

Three of Us

The Secret Trio

Kalan Müzik

Rating: ★★★★

This is the second album released by The Secret Trio, the follow-up to Soundscapes in 2012. The New York-based band...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: June/2018

Review of Like Nightingales in the Spring

Like Nightingales in the Spring

Orkestra Shkodra

Top of the World

ODA 3

Rating: ★★★★★

The north Albanian town of Shkodër, lying between lake and mountains, embraces multiple cultures and histories. While it was still...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2023

Review of Energy Islands

Energy Islands

Fara | FARA

Fara Music

Rating: ★★★★

Originating from Orkney and taking inspiration from the renewable energy innovation of their home isles (track titles relate to their...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2022

Review of Rooted

Rooted

Martin Simpson

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

After 2017's Trails & Tribulations, Rooted again boasts contributions from Nancy Kerr, John Smith and Andy Cutting and also includes...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: December/2019

Review of Compassion

Compassion

Lama Lobsang Palden and Jim Becker

Drag City

Rating: ★★

Jim Becker, a Chicago-based musician, and Lama Lobsang Palden, a Tibetan yoga teacher and healer now living in the US,...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: November/2020

Review of Where From Here

Where From Here

Assynt

Assynt Records

Rating: ★★★

Comprising the fiddle of Graham Mackenzie, the pipes and whistles of David Shedden, and the guitar of Innes White, talented...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2023

Review of Mugham

Mugham

Gochag Askarov

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

When a man's voice overflows with passion, and when you're told that he's singing ancient Persian poems, you want to...

Reviewed by Michael Church in issue: October/2011

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