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Review of Bumblin’ Creed

Bumblin’ Creed

Padang Food Tigers & Sigbjørn Apeland

Northern Spy Records

Rating: ★★★

Padang Food Tigers operate a craft industry in ambient sound-worlds. Bumblin’ Creed is the third full album to emerge from...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2016

Review of Apikorsim/Heretics

Apikorsim/Heretics

The Klezmatics

World Village

Rating: ★★★

From New York, The Klezmatics have been shaking up the klezmer and Yiddish music scene for 30 years now. So...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2016

Review of Relentless

Relentless

Kyle Warren

Greentrax

Rating: ★★★

Kyle Warren spent a decade working on this set of new tunes. Ten years on from his debut, Wanted, the...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2022

Review of Afrique Victime

Afrique Victime

Mdou Moctar

Matador Records

Rating: ★★★

The last album by Mdou Moctar, often dubbed ‘the Hendrix of the Sahara,’ was a devastatingly deadly assault by electric...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: July/2021

Review of Fortuna

Fortuna

Amsterdam Klezmer Band

Vetnasj Records

Rating: ★★★★

For a band that makes the bold claim to being ‘the one and only’ Amsterdam Klezmer Band, the outfit has...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: July/2020

Review of Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau

Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau

Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★★

For those more au fait with the jazz world, Brad Mehldau is something of a household name. His celebrated Art...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: April/2017

Review of Birds and Beasts: Music by Martyn Bennett & Fraser Fifield

Birds and Beasts: Music by Martyn Bennett & Fraser Fifield

Mr McFall’s Chamber

Top of the World

Delphian DCD34085

Rating: ★★★★

Regarded as one of the most innovative Scottish musicians of his time on the back of albums such as 1998...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Kabatronics

Kabatronics

Fanfara Tirana meets Transglobal Underground

World Village

Rating: ★★★

The irresistible draw here is Albania’s amazing brass band Fanfara Tirana, an 11-strong musical force of real magic. Transglobal Underground,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Bes

Bes

The Dwarfs of East Agouza

Nawa Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Formed in 2012, the trio who make up the Dwarfs found themselves living in the same apartment building in Cairo's...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2016

Review of Maison de Pierres: Confiné Aux Voyages

Maison de Pierres: Confiné Aux Voyages

Nicolas Boulerice

La Compagnie Du Nord

Rating: ★★★

Atmospheric, exploratory and stark, Maison de Pierres is the second release in a trilogy of recordings by Le Vent du...

Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: April/2021

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