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Review of Calling

Calling

Jemima Thewes

Last Night From Glasgow

Rating: ★★★★

It is heartening when a thing of beauty emerges following an existential threat: this album is a case in point....

Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: July/2022

Review of Dvojka

Dvojka

Damir Imamović's Sevdah Takht

Glitterbeat

Rating: ★★★★

Born in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, Damir Imamović is one of the leading names in the country's dynamic new sevdah...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2016

Review of Mare

Mare

Quadro Nuevo

GLM Music

Rating: ★★★

Why do Germans go to the Mediterranean for their holidays? I know, a controversial question, and liable to prompt talk...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: January/2021

Review of Otherlands:ONE

Otherlands:ONE

Casey Driessen

Red Shoe Records

Rating: ★★★★

American fiddler Casey Driessen spent nine months travelling the world, meeting, listening and playing with local musicians until COVID-19 eventually...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2021

Review of Zorongo Blu

Zorongo Blu

New Bojaira

New Bojaira

Rating: ★★★

Zorongo Blu offers an accomplished but not entirely comfortable fusion of jazz and flamenco. The group take their name from...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Review of A Chant About the Beauty of the Moon at Night: Hawaiian Steel Guitar Masters 1913-1921

A Chant About the Beauty of the Moon at Night: Hawaiian Steel Guitar Masters 1913-1921

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Magnificent Sounds

Rating: ★★★

With Spanish guitars having been well established in the Hawaiian islands since the mid-1800s, local 16-year-old guitarist Joseph Kekuku is...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2022

Review of Eva

Eva

Dino d’Santiago

Lusafiica

Rating: ★★★

An Algarve-born singer of Cape Verdean extraction and a founding member of the MTV award-winning group Nu Soul Family, Dino...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2014

Review of Volume One 1970-1979

Volume One 1970-1979

Sorry Bamba

Thrill Jockey

Rating: ★★★★

‘Sorry’? The unusual first name is probably an Anglicisation of ‘Sorhy,’ which is itself a twisted version of the common...

Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of The Antiquated &The Arcane

The Antiquated &The Arcane

3 Daft Monkeys

3DM Records

Rating: ★

Certain things give the roots revival and environmental con-sciousness a bad name. Those New Age shops full of joss sticks,...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2011

Review of Best Of

Best Of

Ismaël Lô

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★★

There was a time, back in the 90s, when it seemed that Ismaël Lô was destined to become one of...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2015

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