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Review of Pecados Tropicales

Pecados Tropicales

Kumbia Queers

Comfortzone

Rating: ★★

You’d think six Latina women playing a punky cumbia with ‘queer’ in their band name had to be a good...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of 25th Anniversary Celebration

25th Anniversary Celebration

Altan

IRL IRL044

Rating: ★★

As someone unfortunately old enough to remember the worst extravagances of progressive rock and some appalling collaborations with the classical...

Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Apr/May/2010

Review of Far from the Tree

Far from the Tree

Teyr

Sleight of Hand Records

Rating: ★★★

Teyr means ‘Three’ in Cornish, and the London-based trio, who forged their sound at sessions on Holloway Road, have strong...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2016

Review of Maqâm Roads

Maqâm Roads

Zied Zouari

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★

Zied Zouari is a violin virtuoso who was surely destined to specialise in fusion styles. Born into a family of...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Review of Blues Menessen

Blues Menessen

Roland Tchakounté

World Connection

Rating: ★★★

Born and raised in Cameroon half a century ago, but resident in France for the last couple of decades, Tchakounté's...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2011

Review of Plays Vasco Martins

Plays Vasco Martins

Bau

Lusafrica

Rating: ★★★

Bau has been a behind-the-scenes stalwart of Cape Verdean music ever since Cesaria Evora first put the islands on the...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2013

Review of A Celtic Celebration

A Celtic Celebration

The Bookends with The Stratford Symphony Orchestra

The Bookends

Rating: ★★★★

Like The Siskin Quartet, The Bookends are a quartet formed by the bringing together of two couples. Hailing from Stratford,...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: May/2023

Review of Saar

Saar

Estbel

Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★★★

This quartet could be said to be a kind of quintet, their phantom fifth member being the Baltic island of...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: March/2018

Review of 1000 Watts

1000 Watts

Quantic Presents Flowering Inferno

Top of the World

Tru Thoughts

Rating: ★★★★

On his latest release Quantic returns to the Flowering Inferno moniker he used for his 2010 album Dog With a...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of In Mumbai

In Mumbai

Fraser Fifield

Fraser Fifield

Rating: ★★★★

Equally at home in both the trad and jazz worlds, saxophonist, piper and whistler Fraser Fifield is one of those...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2020

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