Reviews

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Duo Systrami

Duo Systrami have built up a reputation as charismatic performers, playing on the intuitive chemistry they have, being twin sisters....

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2018

Brødløs

Geir Sundstøl

Brødløs is the third solo album by the Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Geir Sundstøl. His main instrument is the pedal steel guitar...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2018

Ililta! New Ethiopian Dance Music

VARIOUS

You could be forgiven for presuming that, such is the Éthiopiques-fuelled fascination for Ethiopian music from the 1960s and 70s,...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: June/2010

A Night in Abyssinia

Arat Kilo

A Night in Abyssinia is based on a risky premise. On the one hand, turning in a mostly instrumental set...

Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: October/2011

Rumbamazigha

Rumbamazigha

Seven musicians gather to create a fusion of Catalan and Amazigh music. Barcelona record label Taller de Musics announces that...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2011

Kassa

Adama Yalomba

We first heard Mali’s Adama Yalomba on the 2003 Festival au Desert compilation. Then the trail went cold again. Kassa...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2010

Fryd

SVER

SVER describe themselves as ‘Norwegian folk music with relentless energy and seductive spark!’ It's the kind of phrase that usually...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2015

Feedback Madagascar

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Madagascar's status as a biodiversity hotspot under threat is well known, so this compilation – the proceeds of which will...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Apr/May/2015

UDU

UDU

UDU is, as far as I know, the only collaboration between Buryat and Lithuanian musicians and it is a delight....

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Avalanche

Ímar

Ímar, a quintet who met on Glasgow's trad music scene, form an alliance of Scottish, Irish and Manx idioms. Their...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: December/2018