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Review of Flight Paths

Flight Paths

Siskin Quartet

Top of the World

Eighth Nerve Audio

Rating: ★★★★

Siskin Quartet are a melding together of two remarkable duos. English-born fiddler Bridget Marsden and accordionist Leif Ottosson – outstanding...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Dialogues IV

Dialogues IV

Joakim Berghäll

Boulder Music Helsinki

Rating: ★★★★

The story of this record is so compelling that it comes as a relief that the content is equal to...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2020

Review of Corazón y Hueso

Corazón y Hueso

Melingo

Top of the World

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

When Argentinian rocker Daniel Melingo took a stab at tango in 1998 with songs like ‘Narigón’ and ‘José el Cuchiyero’...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2012

Review of The Best of Kathryn Tickell

The Best of Kathryn Tickell

Kathryn Tickell

Park Records PRKCD107

Rating: ★★★★

Kathryn Tickell started playing the Northumbrian smallpipes when she was nine. These are bellows blown with, unlike other bagpipes, a...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2010

Review of Esteesee

Esteesee

Ange Hardy

Story Records

Rating: ★★★★

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the greats of English literature – a founding poet of 19th-century Romanticism. Apparently he...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2016

Review of Flying Circus

Flying Circus

Sharon Shannon and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

RTÉ

Rating: ★

This week’s new word is ‘classional’, an apt term for the hybrid offspring of traditional and classical music, a mongrel...

Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of The Alchemy

The Alchemy

Elements

Earth Brother Music

Rating: ★★★★

Very often discs that are presented as fusion are rather samey and do not so much fuse a number of...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2018

Review of Sufi Brotherhood Chant

Sufi Brotherhood Chant

Tijaniyya & Muridiyya

Ocora Radio France

Rating: ★★★

In Senegal one immediately feels the strong presence of the mystic brotherhoods of Sufism. The taxi that takes you from...

Reviewed by Torben Holleufer in issue: October/2012

Review of Gamel

Gamel

00100

Thrill Jockey Records

Rating: ★★★

00100 is a cyber symbol for the middle finger gesture in a chat room or text message, and the name...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Stories Still Untold

Stories Still Untold

Ewan McLennan

Top of the World

Fellside Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Ewan McLennan continues his evolution into a major figure on the Scottish folk scene with his third album. Stories Still...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

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