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Review of Three Seconds | Kolme Toista

Three Seconds | Kolme Toista

Jussi Reijonen

Challenge Records

Rating: ★★★

Finnish guitarist and oud player Jussi Reijonen has allowed nearly a decade to pass between his debut album and this...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Freehand

Freehand

Kabantu

Humanati Records

Rating: ★★★

Having witnessed much of Freehand being performed by this eclectic ensemble earlier in the year, it is a pleasure to...

Reviewed by Anne Templer in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Funky Pangolin

Funky Pangolin

Kyekyeku & Super Opong Stars

Blue Hedgehog

Rating: ★★★

The Ghanaian guitarist Kyekyeku – pronounced Tche-tche-kou – formed the Ghanalogue Highlife project in Accra a decade or so ago, although his...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Wurdiz

Wurdiz

Sowulo

Norse Music

Rating: ★★

Dutch Nordic dark folk band Sowulo harks back to the times of gods where the stories and beliefs of our...

Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Desde un Nuevo Lugar

Desde un Nuevo Lugar

Santiago Molina

Santiago Molina

Rating: ★★★

This impressive debut album from Buenos Aires-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Santiago Molina subtly draws together original compositions and artful reworkings...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Tudo o Que Move

Tudo o Que Move

Orfélia

Orfélia

Rating: ★★★

Antera and Filipe Mattos first met in Berlin and were drawn to each other by their common language: Portuguese. She...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Kel Tinariwen

Kel Tinariwen

Tinariwen

Wedge

Rating: ★★★

You know Tinariwen. Hypnotic Touareg assouf music from bluesy electric guitars, slithering out of Saharan sand-encrusted amps and accompanied by...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Time Was Away

Time Was Away

Emily Portman & Rob Harbron

Furrow Records

Rating: ★★★★

Portman and Harbron are, in their different ways, leading lights of contemporary English folk – Portman as a singer, songwriter...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Ngulmiya

Ngulmiya

Ngulmiya

Top of the World

Bapa Gajah

Rating: ★★★★★

Ngulmiya (aka Grant) Nundhirribala hails from the Aboriginal community of Numbulwar, on the south-east coast of Indigenous Arnhem Land in...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Hawaiki

Hawaiki

Taimane

Taimane

Rating: ★★★

Rising Polynesian uke star Taimane Gardner is a hapa-Samoan (part-Caucasian, part-Samoan) player raised in Hawaii. A musical prodigy, she was...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2023

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