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Review of Meuseucca Servadze

Meuseucca Servadze

Teres Aoutes String Band

Cromo Music

Rating: ★★★★

From Piedmont Teres Aoutes (Piedmont Highlands) comes this fresh force in Italian folk music. Made up of singer and mandolinist...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: April/2023

Review of North Cape

North Cape

Nic Zuppardi

North Cape Records

Rating: ★★★

The name Nic Zuppardi may be unfamiliar but this master of the mandolin has, for over a decade, been part...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2023

Review of Renaissance

Renaissance

Gipsy Kings Tonino Baliardo

Wienerworld

Rating: ★★★★

Tonino Baliardo, one of the founding members of Gipsy Kings, is back with his first album in more than eight...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: March/2023

Review of El Espacio Entre

El Espacio Entre

Refree

tak:til

Rating: ★★★★

Raül Refree is an acclaimed producer and collaborator, sought after by artists as diverse as Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Ricky...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2023

Review of Suite Brasileira

Suite Brasileira

Paul Carey

Paul Carey

Rating: ★★★★

Australian-based guitarist and composer Paul Carey had one goal for his new album: to celebrate Brazilian guitar music. The vision...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: March/2023

Review of Despite the Wind and Rain

Despite the Wind and Rain

Rachel Walker & Aaron Jones

Ròs Dearg Records

Rating: ★★★

Despite the Wind and Rain is the first album from the duo of Gaelic singer-pianist Rachel Walker and singer and...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: March/2023

Review of Barki

Barki

Maltash

Modular Mind

Rating: ★★★★

Born in Beirut, Lebanon and residing in Brussels, Maltash (Arabic for ‘Wicked’) is an experimental musician attempting to deconstruct industrial...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2023

Review of Fiddle Tunes

Fiddle Tunes

Elise Boeur & Adam Iredale-Gray

Top of the World

Fiddlehead Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This album's modest title reflects the pure reverence, unmitigated by contemporised showiness, with which these instrumentalists approach music from Ireland,...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2023

Review of Spell 31

Spell 31

Ibeyi

XL Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Spell 31 is the third full-length from the French-Cuban sister duo, Ibeyi, and it is perhaps their most daring record...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: March/2023

Review of Almanac Behind

Almanac Behind

Daniel Bachman

Three Lobed Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Visionary guitarist Daniel Bachman is steeped in the tradition of American primitive fingerstyle masters such as John Fahey, Robbie Basho...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2023

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