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Review of Rumba con Flores

Rumba con Flores

Eliane Correa & En el Aire Project

Cezanne Producciones

Rating: ★★★

This young, classically trained pianist, composer and arranger shares her time between London, Barcelona and Havana, and her creative energies...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2016

Review of We Are

We Are

Lucidvox

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Rich, dark, romantic, apocalyptic, brooding… The swirling aural textures of this Russian quartet's debut album give rise to a surfeit...

Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: March/2021

Review of Stargazer

Stargazer

Ensemble Ériu

Diatribe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Inspired by the expressionist paintings of Jack Butler Yeats (brother of the poet WB Yeats), Stargazer positions Ensemble Ériu as...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2017

Review of The Art of the Mongolian Yatga

The Art of the Mongolian Yatga

Chinbat Baasankhuu

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

The yatga is a Mongolian zither (similar to a Chinese guzheng or Japanese koto), which Baasankhuu performs confidently upon, whether...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: March/2015

Review of L'Ésprit Créole

L'Ésprit Créole

Cedric Watson & Bijou Créole

Valcour Records VALCD0009

Rating: ★★★

With just a few years of performing and a handful of recordings behind him, Cedric Watson has fastened a firm...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2010

Review of Past the Gates

Past the Gates

Reelroad

CPL Music

Rating: ★★★

Russian bands have only featured intermittently on the world music scene – one thinks of Sergei Starostin, the Terem Quartet...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2016

Review of For the Night

For the Night

Elephant Sessions

Elephant Sessions

Rating: ★★★★

Cool, hip, vibrant might alone be three words that sum up Elephant Sessions’ forth release, For the Night. Building on...

Reviewed by James Scott Rorison in issue: December/2022

Review of Clearing

Clearing

Arlet

Smugglers Records

Rating: ★★

This debut from a quintet of musicians playing accordion, clarinet, violin, guitar and euphonium straddles the boundaries between folk, jazz...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of Metamodal

Metamodal

Sokratis Sinopoulos Quartet

Top of the World

ECM

Rating: ★★★★★

Lyra, piano, bass and drums – given that line-up, one might expect the Greek instrument, played here by the virtuoso...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2019

Review of Avant Folk

Avant Folk

Frode Haltli

Hubro Records

Rating: ★★★★

Frode Haltli is a classically trained Norwegian accordionist, accustomed to working in both folk and avant-garde music. On his latest...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: July/2018

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