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Review of Mãe

Mãe

Cristina Branco

Locomotiva Azul

Rating: ★★★★

Cristina Branco has always been a bit reluctant to call herself a fadista. And it is not hard to understand...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of Conversations We’ve Had Before

Conversations We’ve Had Before

Eliza Carthy Trio

Eliza Carthy

Rating: ★★★★★

With stalwart melodeon player Saul Rose and sympatico guitarist David Delarre, Eliza Carthy has hit on the perfect combination. They...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of Mãe

Mãe

Cristina Branco

Locomotiva Azul

Rating: ★★★★

Cristina Branco has always been a bit reluctant to call herself a fadista. And it is not hard to understand...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of La Novia

La Novia

La Cantiga de la Serena

Zero Nove Nove

Rating: ★★★

An album of Sephardic and traditional songs from Puglia’s La Cantiga de la Serena, a trio made up of Fabrizio...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of Amame

Amame

Mari Boine & Bugge Wesseltoft

By Norse

Rating: ★★★★★

It’s nearly 35 years since Sámi singer Boine recorded Gula Gula, the album which brought the world’s attention to her...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of Komorebi Live

Komorebi Live

Dyad (Didier Laloy & Adrien Tyberghein)

ZigZag World

Rating: ★★★★

The partnership of double bass with diatonic accordion might seem as unlikely as a romance between a Great Dane and...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of Lullabies from Scotland

Lullabies from Scotland

Claire Hastings

Luckenbooth Records

Rating: ★★★

There are some lovely, sparkly moments in this self-descriptive album from 2015's BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Review of Tarkabarka

Tarkabarka

Balamuc

Balamuc

Rating: ★★★

Balamuc are a London-based band with a global membership and a clear interest in the music of the Roma, especially...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Review of Days Like Now

Days Like Now

Huw Marc Bennett

Albert's Favourites

Rating: ★★★★

This is a super cool album from the Welsh producer and bassist Huw Marc Bennett. Having been widely praised for...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Review of Toda un Alegría

Toda un Alegría

Adriano Galante

Top of the World

Halley Records

Rating: ★★★★★

It's very difficult to pigeonhole the music of Barcelona's Adriano Galante, although ‘understated Hispanophone quietism with a very distant nod...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

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