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Review of Dawn

Dawn

Talisk

Top of the World

Talisk Music

Rating: ★★★★★

Headed by the charismatic Mohsen Amini on concertina, the blistering Talisk have been taking the Scottish folk scene by storm...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2022

Review of Water Street

Water Street

Tom Oakes

Window Weather Records

Rating: ★★★

Devon-born, Edinburgh-based multi-instrumentalist Tom Oakes created this entirely solo recording in adversity after his prized Grinter flute shattered onstage on...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: April/2022

Review of Live in San Javier 2021

Live in San Javier 2021

Matthieu Saglio Quartet & Guests

Pulpito Records

Rating: ★★★

French-born agronomist-turned-cellist Matthieu Saglio reprises his 2020 top-selling album El Camino de los Vientos (reviewed in the July 2020 issue,...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: April/2022

Review of An Irish Viola/Vióla Gaelach

An Irish Viola/Vióla Gaelach

Séamus McGuire with Steve Cooney

Séamus McGuire

Rating: ★★★★

Novelty in a musical tradition as ancient as Ireland’s is not easily come by. But this unexpected pairing of viola...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2022

Review of Taisa

Taisa

Mec Yek

Chouxsupde Bruxelles

Rating: ★★★★

Mec Yek is the meeting of Slovakian Roma sisters, Katia and Milka Pohlodkova, with the Belgian ‘Euro-roots outfit’ Jaune Toujours....

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2022

Review of Lamenta

Lamenta

Xanthoula Dakovanou

Quartsupde Lune/UVM

Rating: ★★

Even without any knowledge of the Greek language whatsoever, it’s not hard to guess the central theme of this album...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: April/2022

Review of Agüeros

Agüeros

Sonoras Mil

Sonoras Mil

Rating: ★★★

One accusation that cannot be fired at Colombia’s Sonoras Mil, the project of Felipe Gómez Ossa, is a lack of...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2022

Review of Aja Wele-Wele

Aja Wele-Wele

Oliver Nayoka

Palenque Records

Rating: ★★★

The self-taught Nigerian guitarist Oliver Nayoka began playing in church before forming his Talented Fellows of Africa band in 2006....

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2022

Review of Pyhä Veri Vuotaa

Pyhä Veri Vuotaa

Pelkkä Poutanen

Top of the World

Eclipse Music

Rating: ★★★★

The early morning mist rolls in across the water and pulls you into a hidden landscape; it’s enticing, haunting, mesmerising,...

Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: April/2022

Review of OO MP3

OO MP3

DJ Kainga

1000Hz Records

Rating: ★★★

Polish label 1000HZ have spent the last few years quietly putting out records of incredibly interesting music from Malawi, and...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2022

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