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Review of Pa Mi Tres

Pa Mi Tres

Yarima Blanco

Egrem

Rating: ★★★★

Yarima Blanco won the De la Tradición Sonera y Campesina (From the Son and Country Tradition) award at last year's...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2023

Review of Viva Santa Liberata

Viva Santa Liberata

Matilde Politi

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

For this album the Palermo-born, and politically concerned folk singer, guitarist and tambourine player Politi dives into the archives. The...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: June/2020

Review of The Call

The Call

Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar

Top of the World

Fellside Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

In the two years since the release of their duo debut, The Queen's Lover, guitarist Russell and fiddle-player Algar have...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2014

Review of Hora Kota

Hora Kota

Bonga

Lusafrica

Rating: ★★★

Exile is a terrible thing, but its pain has often been a hugely creative spur for many artists. The subsequent...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2012

Review of Constant Companion

Constant Companion

Cunning Folk

Dharma Records

Rating: ★★★

Cunning folk were – are – people of wisdom, practitioners of folk medicine and magic. Here, though, Cunning Folk is...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2019

Review of Café Musique

Café Musique

Bau

Lusafrica 562432

Rating: ★★★

A kind of one-man Cape Verdean chamber group, Rufino Almeida (also known as Bau), has plucked a steady course through...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2010

Review of Kalakan

Kalakan

Kalakan

KML

Rating: ★★★★

In the Basque country, cider drinking is never so exciting as when the call to celebrate the new pressing is...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: October/2011

Review of Une Meeles

Une Meeles

Maarja Nuut

Top of the World

Maarja Nuut

Rating: ★★★★★

The 2013 debut album by the Estonian fiddler and singer Maarja Nuut secured her a WOMEX showcase, which those lucky...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2016

Review of Hanggai Big Band Brass 2019

Hanggai Big Band Brass 2019

Hanggai

Starsing Music

Rating: ★★★

Hanggai have been performing interpretations of traditional music from both Inner Mongolia in China (where they hail from) and the...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: December/2019

Review of The Art of the Cheolhyeongeum Sanjo

The Art of the Cheolhyeongeum Sanjo

Yu Kyung-hwa

Inédit

Rating: ★★★

Sanjo is a popular Korean folk-art genre that builds as a sequence of movements, beginning slow and emotional, gradually increasing...

Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: March/2016

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