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Review of Lady Diamond

Lady Diamond

Bryony Griffith & Will Hampson

Selwyn Music

Rating: ★★★

Surprisingly, this is the debut album by a duo that already has a long pedigree. Griffith and Hampson have been...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of The Silent Majority

The Silent Majority

Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar

Fellside

Rating: ★★★★

With two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards wins, a couple of acclaimed albums, a live DVD and even a recent...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: May/2016

Review of Work My Claim

Work My Claim

Brooks Williams

Red Guitar Blue Music

Rating: ★★★

Marking 30 years as a touring and recording musician, Brooks Williams offers up a collection of nine re-recorded, all-acoustic tracks...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2020

Review of Naming & Blaming

Naming & Blaming

The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra

HopeStreet Recordings

Rating: ★★★

This is the second album from the Melbourne-based Public Opinion Afro Orchestra and it is unabashedly Afrobeat. The group take...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019

Review of Couteau / Haute Forme

Couteau / Haute Forme

Super Parquet

Top of the World

Airfono Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Super Parquet command the confluence of Auvergnat folk, art and club music, creating their own unique sound flow. This follow-up...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2022

Review of Blessed Sadness

Blessed Sadness

Antoni O''Breskey

Nomadic Piano Project

Rating: ★★★★

Antoni O'Breskey has long been a prolific, border-denying, genre-splicing presence in his adopted Ireland. Italian-born with Argentinian roots, his musical...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: November/2021

Review of Plaza Francia Orchestra

Plaza Francia Orchestra

Plaza Francia Orchestra

Because Music

Rating: ★★★

While they were, respectively, the keyboardist/programmer and guitarist of Gotan Project, Swiss-raised Christoph H Müller and Argentinian Eduardo Makaroff helped...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2018

Review of Orígenes

Orígenes

Sotomayor

Wonderwheel Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Since emerging from Mexico Cith's indie music scene a few years ago, the brother-sister duo Sotomayor have formulated their own...

Reviewed by Patrick Mcmahon in issue: May/2020

Review of Plaint of Lapwing

Plaint of Lapwing

Alasdair Roberts & James Green

Clay Pipe Music

Rating: ★★★★

Alasdair Roberts has a busy and productive muse – with a long line of striking solo records behind him, recent...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2016

Review of Kohesia

Kohesia

Kate Pass

Kate Pass

Rating: ★★★

Kohesia provides an unlikely connection between Perth and Persia. Inspired by ex-pat Iranian musicians such as vocalist Tara Tiba, Australian...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2018

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