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Review of Love Songs

Love Songs

Bella Hardy

Noe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Opening with piano and a flourish of fiddle on instrumental track, ‘Summer Daylight Winter Darkness’, Bella Hardy’s tenth album is...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2022

Review of London Acoustic Set

London Acoustic Set

Carmen Souza Duo feat Theo Pas’cal

Galileo

Rating: ★★★

Sheared back to not much more than her gravity-defying voice at London’s Green Note venue, Carmen Souza shows here that...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2012

Review of Albores

Albores

Dino Saluzzi

ECM

Rating: ★★★

The Argentinian bandoneón maestro Dino Saluzzi is a rara avis. He doesn’t play the nostalgic tango-covers card. Nor, despite hailing...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: January/2021

Review of Navega!

Navega!

Moussu T e Lei Jovents

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

From Marseille, singer Tatou and crew have continued leaping across to the US, bringing the Occitan language to new audiences....

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of Dil

Dil

Shujaat Husain Khan

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

The family style of the late sitar legend Vilayat Khan is renowned for its gayaki, a vocalised style of playing...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Natura Sonora

Natura Sonora

El Búho

Top of the World

Shika Shika

Rating: ★★★★

Though British, Robin Perkins emerged out of the Latin American downtempo scene of the early 2010s under the alias of...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2021

Review of Dance Me to Heaven

Dance Me to Heaven

Victoria Klewin & The True Tones

Victoria Klewin

Rating: ★★

Funded by fans and daydream believers comes this first album from a tight little unit currently making waves in the...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2016

Review of Rima

Rima

Moana & The Tribe

Top of the World

Black Pearl

Rating: ★★★★

Ever since the arrival of her genre-bending 90s band The Moahunters, veteran Maori songstress Moana Maniapoto has been one of...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Casa de Trova: Cuba 50s

Casa de Trova: Cuba 50s

Alejandro Almenares

Tumi Music (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★

A decade or so ago, this album would have been one among dozens. With the decline of the CD trade,...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: June/2014

Review of The Falcon Flies from Rudnik Mountain

The Falcon Flies from Rudnik Mountain

Olga Krasojevic & Svetlana Spajic Group

WMAS

Rating: ★★★★

Olga Krasojević, rapidly approaching the age of 80 with few signs of wear, is from the central Serbian village of...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2016

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