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Review of SUBHA

SUBHA

Roopa Panesar

Top of the World

Asian Arts Agency

Rating: ★★★★

Sitar player Roopa Panesar is certainly one of the most important musicians to have emerged in the British Asian diaspora...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: October/2022

Review of The Real Revolution

The Real Revolution

Playing for Change Band

Playing for Change

Rating: ★★★

It’s 20 years since the American filmmakers Mark Johnson and Whitney Kroenke founded Playing for Change, hitting the streets with...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2022

Review of Eli Winter

Eli Winter

Eli Winter

Top of the World

Three Lobed Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Known as an extraordinarily adept self-taught guitarist with a distinctive style bearing the imprint of contemporary American flatpickers, particularly his...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2022

Review of Mis Ancestros

Mis Ancestros

Perkutao

Buh Records

Rating: ★★★

Perkutao are an Afro-Peruvian percussion ensemble founded in 2005 and directed by Percy Chinchilla, musician, percussionist, zapateador and teacher. Mis...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2022

Review of Jinn

Jinn

Jinn

Felmay Records

Rating: ★★★★

While it would be easy to make an album focusing on the similarities between guitar and oud, this debut album...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2022

Review of Rosc

Rosc

Goitse

Top of the World

Goitse

Rating: ★★★★★

Celebrating 15 years together and a decade on the touring circuit, Limerick-based quintet Goitse mark the dual anniversary in style...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2022

Review of And So We Gather

And So We Gather

Kim Carnie

Càrn Records

Rating: ★★★★

Kim Carnie wrote most of this debut album in Glen Lyon, Perthshire, and she has captured the unhurried peacefulness of...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: October/2022

Review of Bondona

Bondona

Khiyo

Top of the World

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

On the strength of their 2015 debut album Khiyo were nominees in the best group category at the Songlines Music...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2022

Review of Racines

Racines

Joulik

La Clique Production

Rating: ★★★

With Racines the French trio Joulik range around the globe. ‘Gwannaw Ay’ includes Wolof proverbs, ‘Dans Mon Ker’ is in...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2022

Review of Mahal

Mahal

Irfan Ali Taj

A for Aleph Records

Rating: ★★★

Hailing from the Upper Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the north of Pakistan, singer and multi-instrumentalist Irfan Ali Taj’s...

Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: August/September/2022

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