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Review of Stories Sung, Truths Told

Stories Sung, Truths Told

Tir Eolas

Tir Eolas

Rating: ★★★

Recorded in just one week in summer 2014 and produced by Jim Moray, Stories Sung, Truths Told ably shows off...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2015

Review of Adama Drame

Adama Drame

Adama Dramé

Sunset France SA 141196

Rating: ★★

A long-term champion of West Africa’s loudest hand drum, the djembé master Adama Dramé here gets his early 90s solo...

Reviewed by Barak Schmool in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Veracruz: Sones y Flores

Veracruz: Sones y Flores

Duo Coincidencia

Cugate Classics

Rating: ★★★

Think of a male/female acoustic guitar duo, add Mexico to the equation and you may well come up with Rodrigo...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/2021

Review of New Cities

New Cities

The Kora Band

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★

New Cities is the third album from a collective exploring the possibilities that emerge from adapting source material from the...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: March/2016

Review of Panic Grass & Fever Few

Panic Grass & Fever Few

Ian King

Top of the World

Fledg’ling FLED3082

Rating: ★★★★

Ian King of England – it has an old–money ring to it – is a Barnsley–born singer and stonewaller. The...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2010

Review of Footsteps in the Snow

Footsteps in the Snow

L'Attirail featuring Sidi Bémol

CBS Productions

Rating: ★★★

In true L'Attirail fashion, Footsteps in the Snow is a journey rooted in travel and storytelling. Here, sounds float in...

Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: April/2021

Review of Black Birds are Dancing Over Me

Black Birds are Dancing Over Me

Danny Michel & The Garifuna Collective

Cumbancha

Rating: ★★★

For those who do not know him or his work, Danny Michel is a folk-rock singer from Ontario, whose reflective,...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: October/2013

Review of Male Voices of Fado

Male Voices of Fado

VARIOUS ARTISTS

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

As is often the case with compilations, one obsesses not so much about the selection but rather about the missing...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Sparks

Sparks

Rachel Hair & Ron Jappy

March Hair Records

Rating: ★★★★

The fifth album from the Highland harpist with a name that confuses Google (think Jennifer Aniston and a popular TV...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Review of Tirana 100

Tirana 100

Tirana-Tirona Allstars

Top of the World

Municipality of Tirana

Rating: ★★★★

Over the last half a century or so there have been many attempts to reveal ‘Europe’s unknown music,’ which usually...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: May/2021

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