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Review of La Ruta de la Pantera

La Ruta de la Pantera

La-33

Top of the World

Dionysiac Tour

Rating: ★★★★

Having borrowed their album's title (‘The Way of the Panther’) from a Marvel comic, and previously reinvented Henry Mancini's Pink...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2015

Review of Rough Guide to Bellydance

Rough Guide to Bellydance

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★

Finger cymbals? Check. Hip scarves, fan veil, belly button jewel? Check. The second edition of the Rough Guide to Bellydance...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2011

Review of Chicago Barn Dance

Chicago Barn Dance

Special Consensus

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★

It's safe to say that every country music fan has heard of the Grand Ole Opry. What few people know...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2020

Review of One for the Road

One for the Road

Session A9

RAJ Records

Rating: ★★★

Session A9 are made up of road veterans of Capercaillie, Peatbog Faeries, Boys of the Lough and Fiddlers’ Bid. You...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Anthologie

Anthologie

Lili Boniche

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

An energetic and multi-talented singer and lutenist, Lili Boniche was born in the Jewish sector of the Algiers Casbah in1921...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: March/2013

Review of Straight Allons

Straight Allons

Kyle Huval & the Dixie Club Ramblers

Valcour Records

Rating: ★★★★

Kyle Huval is a 20-something Cajun accordionist from Eunice, Louisiana. Straight Allons is his second album and proves as refreshing...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2017

Review of Blue Lotus the Awakening

Blue Lotus the Awakening

Mau Power

One Blood Hidden Image

Rating: ★★★

Mau Power (aka Patrick Mau) hails from Thursday Island in the Torres Strait – that chain of Australian islands between...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of Folly

Folly

Mary Hampton

Teaspoon Records

Rating: ★★★

Listening to Folly, I'm reminded of Tunng's absorption with the childlike, with a particularly English sense of innocence mixed with...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2011

Review of Afrosoul

Afrosoul

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★

The Ways we discover new music can research artists online. If you are unsure what you want to research, there...

Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Sky Songs

Sky Songs

Alena Murang

Alena Murang

Rating: ★★★

Alena Murang is a singer and sapé player from Sarawak on the island of Borneo, Malaysia. One of the indigenous...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2021

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