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Review of Times from Times Fall

Times from Times Fall

Fara

FARA Records

Rating: ★★★★

This Orkney born and bred quartet – fiddlers Kristan Harvey, Jeana Leslie and Catriona Price, alongside pianist Jennifer Austin –...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2018

Review of ELDA

ELDA

ELDA Trio

Two Rivers

Rating: ★★★

My first encounter with the Brazilian percussionist Adriano Adewale came earlier this year when I saw him presenting Catapluf's Musical...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2016

Review of Aynaabe

Aynaabe

La Musique d'Issa Sow

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Rating: ★★★

The traditional bowed violin of the Senegalese Peul shepherds is called nianiorou or riti. Former shepherd Issa Sow is perhaps...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2020

Review of Harmony

Harmony

Sa Dingding

Wrasse WEASS247

Rating: ★★★

In the entrance to the offices of Universal Records in Beijing, there’s a wall c o ve re d i...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2010

Review of Al Qantara

Al Qantara

Majid Bekkas

Igloo Records

Rating: ★★★

Majid Bekkas is a Moroccan multi-instrumentalist who has previously explored the meeting points between Maghrebi Gnawa music and the blues....

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: July/2014

Review of Missing Chapters

Missing Chapters

Moken

MoodSwing Records

Rating: ★★★

Unique Cameroonian singer-songwritercum-stylist Moken follows up 2016's Chapters of My Life with Missing Chapters. He's in Atlanta, Georgia, having transplanted...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2019

Review of One Love, One Life

One Love, One Life

Beres Hammond

VP Records

Rating: ★★★

Despite being an unremarkable figure during reggae's golden era in the 70s, Beres Hammond has created a contemporary two-disc album...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2013

Review of Fado: Coimbra-Lisbonne 1949-1961

Fado: Coimbra-Lisbonne 1949-1961

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Frémeaux & Associés

Rating: ★★

Having Alfredo Marceneiro, Amalia Rodrigues, Lucília do Carmo, Fernando Farinha, Maria Teresa de Noronha and Hermínia Silva on one record...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Robbie Greig & Friends

Robbie Greig & Friends

Robbie Greig & Friends

Robbie Greig

Rating: ★★★

Edinburgh-based and steeped in the Gaelic tradition, Robbie Grieg has enlisted a fine set of friends for his debut album,...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2017

Review of The Great Irish Songbook

The Great Irish Songbook

Dervish

Rounder Records

Rating: ★★★

Dervish mark 30 years together with their first studio album in more than a decade and the first to be...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2019

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