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Review of Bread and Jam

Bread and Jam

LaLlamas

La-Llamas

Rating: ★★★

If your taste leans toward finely cra.ed, casually philosophical, quirkily upbeat acoustic roots music with a dash of global funk,...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2020

Review of Tales From Across the Water

Tales From Across the Water

Griselda Sanderson | Griselda Sanderson & Ricardo de Noronha

Waulk Records

Rating: ★★★

Multi-instrumentalist Griselda Sanderson's third instrumental album, following 2008's Harpaphonics, and 2015's Radial, offers a musical hand of friendship and connection...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2023

Review of Angola Soundtrack – The Unique Sound from Luanda 1968-1976

Angola Soundtrack – The Unique Sound from Luanda 1968-1976

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Top of the World

Analog Africa

Rating: ★★★★★

With its colonial links to Portugal, it is unsurprising that the music of Angola bears remarkable similarities to rhythms heard...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of African Tree

African Tree

Marcelo Andrade

Ourland Records

Rating: ★★

I wish I could say that this album lives up to the artist’s laudable idea of planting 500 trees in...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2013

Review of Oliver's Cinema

Oliver's Cinema

Eric Vloeimans’ Oliver's Cinema

Challenge Records Int

Rating: ★★

‘For the elderly’ and ‘music to be given a wide berth’ – this is what the young Eric Vloeimans used...

Reviewed by Mike Fleck in issue: July/2014

Review of K5

K5

Dalla

Dalla Records

Rating: ★★★

K5 is an abbreviation of kabm pemp, a five-step, which is one of the important rhythms of Cornish dance. It...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of Queen City Jubilee

Queen City Jubilee

The Slocan Ramblers

SloMusic

Rating: ★★★★

Seriously solid traditional bluegrass music, freshly interpreted and rendered with passion and precision for 21st-century ears; that's the formula used...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2018

Review of Exile Vibration

Exile Vibration

Kyab Yul-Sa

Nangma Productions

Rating: ★★★

Kyab Yul-Sa is a collaboration between Lobsang Chonzor and French musicians Margaux Liénard (fiddle, bouzouki) and Julien Lahaye (percussion). The...

Reviewed by Thomas Williams in issue: November/2018

Review of Gammelt, Nyt, Lånt og Blåt

Gammelt, Nyt, Lånt og Blåt

Rannok

Go Danish Folk Music

Rating: ★★★

Rannok's Michael Graubæk (fiddle and mandolin) and Theis Langlands (piano and pump organ) are both well-established musicians in the Danish...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2017

Review of Si L’Hiver Peut Prendre

Si L’Hiver Peut Prendre

Lawrence O’Hearn André Marchand

Lawrence O’Hearn

Rating: ★★★★

The French title of this recording – ‘if only winter would take hold’ – has an idiomatic meaning in Québec....

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

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