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Review of Origo

Origo

Kaja

Kakafon

Rating: ★★★★

Rooted in Eastern European music, this latest album from instrumental trio Kaja explores the boundaries of that wide genre and...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Review of Exaltação

Exaltação

Marcos D Project

Quart de Luné

Rating: ★★★

If you're the sort of person who likes to know what they're getting into ahead of time then this is...

Reviewed by Brian Taylor in issue: March/2019

Review of Zebu Nation

Zebu Nation

Razia Said

Top of the World

Cumbancha CMB-CD-16

Rating: ★★★★

Razia Said is an unfamiliar name in the world of Malagasy music: she has lived outside Madagasca since she was...

Reviewed by Paddy Bush in issue: March/2010

Review of Housewarming

Housewarming

The Mae Trio

Mae Trio

Rating: ★★★

With sweet three-part harmonies and instrumental chops to burn, Melbourne's Mae Trio have become a favourite on the Aussie folk...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2015

Review of Volume II

Volume II

The Armagh Rhymers

The Armagh Rhymers

Rating: ★★★★

The Armagh Rhymers have been fusing ancient and modern, the mundane and the magical, legend and the life lived since...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2022

Review of Revolucionario

Revolucionario

Quinteto Astor Piazzolla

Top of the World

East 54 Entertainment

Rating: ★★★★

As well as his scintillating signature sound, at least a dozen sublime albums, and hundreds of compositions, Astor Piazzolla bequeathed...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2019

Review of Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa

Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa

Jeremy Dutcher

Top of the World

Jeremy Dutcher/Fontana North

Rating: ★★★★

When Jeremy Dutcher received the Polaris Prize (the Canadian equivalent of the Mercury Prize) for this album in September, he...

Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: Jan/Feb/2019

Review of Wick to Wickham

Wick to Wickham

Gordon Gunn

Greentrax Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Best known as a member of the fiddle-led supergroup Session A9, Scottish fiddler and composer Gordon Gunn has not recorded...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: December/2015

Review of MistO-MistO

MistO-MistO

MistO-MistO

Captain Pouch Records

Rating: ★★★

The press release talks of a ‘primordial soup,’ the cover art suggests something cosmic and funky in a Fela Kuti...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of The Roaring Whirl

The Roaring Whirl

Sarah Rodgers

Métier

Rating: ★★★

The conceit of this disc is to take readings from Kipling's Kim and juxtapose them against a musical interpretation of...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2020

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