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Review of Two More Hours

Two More Hours

Karan Casey

Crow Valley Music

Rating: ★★★★★

A departure from the traditional music she has performed and recorded for several years - which has included an album...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2014

Review of Innamorata

Innamorata

Andrea Terrano

Atlantic Jaxx

Rating: ★★★

The accompanying press release suggests this is ‘a perfect companion for driving around the Ibizan hills,’ and tunes such as...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: March/2017

Review of Moreland’s Ball

Moreland’s Ball

The Woohoo Revue

The Woohoo Revue

Rating: ★★★★

Melbourne ensemble The Woohoo Revue are one of those groups that’s impossible to categorise. Most would call them a ‘Gypsy’...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2012

Review of The Sisypheans

The Sisypheans

Xylouris White

Top of the World

Drag City Records

Rating: ★★★★★

An apt title, perhaps, for a singular double act whose relentless international touring has seen them achieve cult status as...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of Wiejski Dżez

Wiejski Dżez

Kapela Maliszów

Top of the World

Unzipped Fly Records

Rating: ★★★★★

The Malisz family hail from Męcina Mała, a small village in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains near the Slovakian...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Review of Invisible Faces

Invisible Faces

Tomáš Liška

Animal Music

Rating: ★★★★

Bringing together musicians from Turkey, Serbia and the Czech Republic, bassist Tomáš Liška here draws upon a shared musical language...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2017

Review of Mongolia: Chants Diphonique et Instruments Traditionels

Mongolia: Chants Diphonique et Instruments Traditionels

Chinbat Baasankhuu & Bayarbaatar Davaasuren

Frémeaux & Associés

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded by the composer, lecturer and ornithologist Bernard Fort in Mongolia and Lyon, this disc features two top professional musicians...

Reviewed by Rachel Harris in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of Passarinho

Passarinho

João Selva

Underdog Records

Rating: ★★★

The Brazilian cultural archetype, the Passarinho or ‘Little Bird,’ serves as a harbinger of environmental disaster on this singer-songwriter's second...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2023

Review of An Introduction to the Watersons/Waterson:Carthy

An Introduction to the Watersons/Waterson:Carthy

The Watersons

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Now this must have been quite a job, albeit a highly rewarding and enjoyable one: concertina-ing the recordings of The...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2018

Review of Oriental Music

Oriental Music

Omar El Shariyi (Ammar El Sherei)

We Want Sounds

Rating: ★★★★

This vinyl-only remaster of the now cult classic album originally released by Cairene label Soutelphan back in 1976 celebrates two...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: January/2021

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