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Review of In Search of Sources

In Search of Sources

Jarek Adamów & Marcin Kozak

Folken Music

Rating: ★★

Unlike the Jarek Adamów album that follows this one, In Search of Sources features two Polish musicians interested in the...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/September/2022

Review of The Hindustani Jazz Sextet Live at the UCLA

The Hindustani Jazz Sextet Live at the UCLA

Don Ellis

Sleepy Night Records

Rating: ★★★

This live record is a charming time capsule, taking us back to the swinging 60s and the first fumblings of...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Cross the Rolling Water

Cross the Rolling Water

Hannah Read & Michael Starkey

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★

Fiddler and singer-songwriter Hannah Read met banjo player Michael Starkey at an Appalachian music session in Edinburgh in 2019. They...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Northern Khmer Spirit Music in Thailand

Northern Khmer Spirit Music in Thailand

Kantrum Dongman

Animist Records

Rating: ★★★★

Kantrum boran, the traditional music of Northern Khmer people, is found in the lower north-eastern Thai provinces of Surin, Sri...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Quesaco?

Quesaco?

Paris Combo

Six Degrees Records

Rating: ★★★

Paris Combo are an iconic Parisian band, carried by the voice and the twinkling presence of Bénédicte Grimault, aka Belle...

Reviewed by Anne Ge in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Chants du Dedans, Chants du Dehors

Chants du Dedans, Chants du Dehors

Meïkhâneh

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

Hearing Meïkhâneh’s album, Chants du Dedans, Chants du Dehors (Songs from Inside, Songs from Outside), is akin to waking up...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Here and There

Here and There

Kibrom Birhane

Flying Carpet Records

Rating: ★★★★

Since its (then) undiscovered flowering in the 1970s, Ethio-jazz has spread around the musical world like an exotic plant. Before...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Oghneya

Oghneya

Ferkat Al Ard

Habibi Funk Records

Rating: ★★★★

Berlin-based Arabic-retro label Habibi Funk have given the kiss of life to another lost legend in the form of 1978’s...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Baragwin

Baragwin

Baragwin

Boghei Records

Rating: ★★★★

Here’s yet another treasure of musical tradition from the Francophone provinces of eastern Canada, which have in common historical connections...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Footwork

Footwork

Lewis Wood

Top of the World

Grimdon Records

Rating: ★★★★

The debut album from English fiddler Lewis Wood is something of a concept album – and it’s a nice concept. Footwork...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: August/September/2022

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