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Review of Meuseucca Servadze

Meuseucca Servadze

Teres Aoutes String Band

Cromo Music

Rating: ★★★★

From Piedmont Teres Aoutes (Piedmont Highlands) comes this fresh force in Italian folk music. Made up of singer and mandolinist...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: April/2023

Review of Leaves That Fly

Leaves That Fly

Kim Richards

Self Released

Rating: ★★★

Leaves That Fly is the debut album from Glasgow-based Kim Richards and a beautiful and heartfelt release it is too....

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2019

Review of Long Time… Seldom Scene

Long Time… Seldom Scene

The Seldom Scene

Smithsonian Folkways

Rating: ★★★

After four decades, The Seldom Scene is a band showing no signs of wavering enthusiasm or wandering from their chosen...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of North Cape

North Cape

Nic Zuppardi

North Cape Records

Rating: ★★★

The name Nic Zuppardi may be unfamiliar but this master of the mandolin has, for over a decade, been part...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2023

Review of Man No Die

Man No Die

Bola Johnson

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★

Bola Johnson has been one of the finds in the recent plethora of re c ent Nigerian highlife/Afro-funk archive reissues....

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Silk & Stone

Silk & Stone

Amira Medunjanin

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

Amira Medunjanin is one of the great voices of the Balkans. A decade ago her album Rosa was a fantastic...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2015

Review of Gnawa London

Gnawa London

Simo Lagnawi

Top of the World

Waulk Records

Rating: ★★★★

Best known in the UKasa musical collaborator, in particular with Gnawa-indie band Electric Jalaba, Simo Lagnawi springs a few surprises...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

Review of Maiden Voyage

Maiden Voyage

The Silver Darlings

The Silver Darlings

Rating: ★★★★

So, 2021’s taste for the sea shanties may be starting to go as stale as a ship’s biscuit, but there...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2022

Review of Quantic Presents Tropical Funk Experience

Quantic Presents Tropical Funk Experience

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Nascente

Rating: ★★★★

If you need some¬one to compile a co mpilation o f hen’s-teeth-rare funk grooves from 1 970s Latin America, there’s...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Dois

Dois

Batida

Soundway Records

Rating: ★★★

Pedro Coquenão's musical vision began as a radio show tracing his Angolan roots from his adopted home of Portugal. Creative...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

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