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Review of Live at the NCH

Live at the NCH

The Gloaming

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★★

Dublin's National Concert Hall has become a home from home for The Gloaming – they spent seven nights there in...

Reviewed in issue May/2018

Review of Cosmic Language

Cosmic Language

Nat Birchall

Jazzman Records

Rating: ★★★

The fusion of jazz and Indian classical music has become so commonplace as to be almost passé, but saxophonist Nat...

Reviewed in issue May/2018

Review of SOAR

SOAR

Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita

Top of the World

bendigedig

Rating: ★★★★★

Here, at last, is the long-awaited new album from that remarkable duo, the classically trained Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and...

Reviewed in issue May/2018

Review of Nordic Raga

Nordic Raga

Jyotsna Srikanth, Mats Edén, Dan Svensson & Pär Moberg

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★

The fiddle traditions of Sweden and southern India are both long established but are as far apart, musically and...

Reviewed in issue May/2018

Review of Emakhosini

Emakhosini

BCUC

Top of the World

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★★

The latest album from BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness), Emakhosini, takes the listener on a journey that masterfully embodies the...

Reviewed in issue May/2018

Review of Moyuba Baba, Moyuba Yeye

Moyuba Baba, Moyuba Yeye

The London Lucumi Choir

Movimientos

Rating: ★★★★

Now 12 years old, the London Lucumi Choir continues to do extraordinary community-centred arts work and celebrates the rich, syncretistic...

Reviewed in issue May/2018

Review of Haneen

Haneen

Brickwork Lizards

Lazima Records

Rating: ★★

Brickwork Lizards describe themselves as an Arabic jazz-folk ensemble. Based in Oxford, the ten-strong group have released their second record,...

Reviewed in issue May/2018

Review of Uprooted

Uprooted

Minor Empire

World Trip Records

Rating: ★★★★

Given Minor Empire's mesmeric sound, it's a shame it's taken so long for a follow-up to their 2011 debut, Second...

Reviewed in issue May/2018

Review of Åra

Åra

Erlend Apneseth Trio

Top of the World

Hubro

Rating: ★★★★★

Apneseth is on the move again. His previous albums have investigated a more purist Norwegian folk (even when he's penned...

Reviewed in issue April/2018

Review of Griot Blues

Griot Blues

Mighty Mo Rodgers & Baba Sissoko

One Root Music

Rating: ★★★

The septuagenarian black American bluesman Mighty Mo Rodgers and the Malian griot Baba Sissoko met on tour in Lithuania in...

Reviewed in issue April/2018

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