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Review of Not One but Another

Not One but Another

Andy Kirkham

Bijou

Rating: ★★★

Andy Kirkham is a British, Norfolk-based folk guitar player and songwriter. His fifth solo album is a reflective affair, consisting...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Review of Redux: Anthology 1978-2015

Redux: Anthology 1978-2015

Jah Wobble

30 Hertz

Rating: ★★★

After two game-changing albums with his mate Johnny Rotten's post-Sex Pistols band Public Image Ltd, John Wardle, aka Jah Wobble,...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Review of The Drunken Wind of Life: The Poem/Songs of Tin Ujević

The Drunken Wind of Life: The Poem/Songs of Tin Ujević

John Kruth

Smiling Fez Records

Rating: ★★★★

Musical relations between the US and Croatia are of long standing, with some of the earliest recordings of the tamburica...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Review of Por Ahí

Por Ahí

Rana Santacruz

Chicavasco Music

Rating: ★★★★

Born and raised in Mexico City, but based in Brooklyn since 2002, Rana Santacruz styles himself as a Latino heir...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Review of Live at the Bimhuis

Live at the Bimhuis

Arifa & Voices from the East

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★

Arifa are a band that are hard to define – four musicians from Turkey, Romania, Greece and Germany, resident in...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Review of Strong

Strong

Iness Mezel

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★

As Iness Mezel's album opens she is very much mistress of her own funk-rock-fusion domain. Her powerful, heavily reverbed voice...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Review of The Gospel Album

The Gospel Album

Gurrumul

Skinnyfish Records

Rating: ★★★

Gurrumul, the blind indigenous Australian vocalist, has achieved remarkable international success with his soft folk-pop music. While he sings in...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Review of Vertical Land

Vertical Land

David John Sheppard

Village Green Records

Rating: ★★★

This album has a clear aim: to aurally conjure that feeling all thoughtful travellers experience, the sense of wonder at...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Review of Surfing Times

Surfing Times

Los Plantronics

Jansen Plateproduksjon

Rating: ★★★

Odd to think that a nation as staid and wealthy as Norway could produce a band as raucous as Los...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Review of Spleen

Spleen

Smadj

Jazz Village

Rating: ★★★★

Since 2000, with Equilibriste, Franco-Tunisian artist Smadj has broadened the limits of his electrified oud's sound through the band DuOud,...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

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