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Review of At Our Next Meeting

At Our Next Meeting

The Furrow Collective

Furrow Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Furrow Collective is a four-piece comprising some of the leading young lights in English and Scottish folk and traditional...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2014

Review of Nomad

Nomad

Bombino

Top of the World

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

There's a growing trend for West African acts to court global popularity by employing Anglo-American producers to give them a...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2013

Review of Folktron

Folktron

Oratnitza

Fusion Embassy

Rating: ★★★★

On the second full-length album from Bulgarian folk distorters Oratnitza, the quartet continues its quest to meld traditional music with...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2016

Review of Don’t You Want To Go?

Don’t You Want To Go?

Betse Ellis

Free Dirt DIRTCD0058

Rating: ★★★★

A superbly talented fiddle player from Kansas City, Missouri, and member of the acoustic bluegrass band The Wilders, Betse Ellis...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Tapes of Utopia

Tapes of Utopia

Onipa

Top of the World

Boomerang Records

Rating: ★★★★

This cassette (which is also available as a download, obviously) brims with infectious music, lyrics and a hard-wired utopian variety...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: November/2021

Review of Dub Revolutionaries

Dub Revolutionaries

Zion Train

Nascente

Rating: ★★★

Dub music may have originated in the Caribbean but it has mutated over the decades. When the first waves of...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Brasilianos 2

Brasilianos 2

Hamilton de Holanda Quintet

Adventure Music AM 1055

Rating: ★★★

This is one of those albums on which you can’t help but be impressed by the virtuoso musician¬ship. Bandleader Hamilton...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Parachute

Parachute

Trio Dhoore

Appel Rekords

Rating: ★★

It's hard to pinpoint what exactly makes Trio Dhoore's music their own: what makes their art distinctive, or even identifiably...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: December/2015

Review of Guitar Duos of Kemal Belevi

Guitar Duos of Kemal Belevi

Duo Tandem

Naxos

Rating: ★★★

Kemal Belevi is a Turkish Cypriot composer and guitarist. Though his Cyprian Rhapsodies Nos 1-4, Suite Chypre and Turkish Suite,...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2021

Review of Corazón

Corazón

Santana

Sony Music

Rating: ★★★★

The Latin-rock hybrid Carlos Santana created in the late 60s was world music 20 years before the term became common...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2014

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