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Review of Tapes of Utopia

Tapes of Utopia

Onipa

Top of the World

Boomerang Records

Rating: ★★★★

This cassette (which is also available as a download, obviously) brims with infectious music, lyrics and a hard-wired utopian variety...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: November/2021

Review of On Our Own Clock

On Our Own Clock

On Our Own Clock

Mushroom Half Hour & Total Refreshment Centre

Rating: ★★★★

What with the London-based 16-piece Balimaya Project and a host of other new collectives finding strength in numbers, a happy...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2021

Review of The Brickfields

The Brickfields

Granny''s Attic

Grimdon Records

Rating: ★★★

This fourth studio album from the British folk trio is one of many albums born out of the pandemic that...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2021

Review of Evocazioni e Invocazioni

Evocazioni e Invocazioni

Davide Ambrogio

Top of the World

Calatea

Rating: ★★★★

Ancient resonances tinge Davide Ambrogio's timbre. He is a Calabrian singer and multi-instrumentalist – guitars, Calabrian lyre, zampogna (bagpipes), electronics...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: November/2021

Review of Wairunga

Wairunga

Fat Freddy''s Drop

The Drop

Rating: ★★★★

Fat Freddy's Drop have been favourites on the local scene for two decades while also building a considerable global following....

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2021

Review of Still Moving

Still Moving

Justin Adams & Mauro Durante

Top of the World

Ponderosa Music Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Adams has long been a bold and adventurous serial collaborator but this album with Mauro Durante – leader of Italy's...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2021

Review of Âlem

Âlem

Altɪn Gün

ATO Records/Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★

While Amsterdam-based sextet Altin Gün are known as 21st-century purveyors of Turkish psych-folk, their last album, Yol, released in February...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021

Review of Ngā Mata o te Ariki Tāwhirimātea

Ngā Mata o te Ariki Tāwhirimātea

Maisey Rika

First Nation Music – Aotearoa

Rating: ★★★★

After growing up singing with her mother and aunties, award-winning Māori vocalist Maisey Rika began performing professionally at age 13....

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2021

Review of The Guesthouse Sessions

The Guesthouse Sessions

Naragonia

Trad Records

Rating: ★★★

Lockdown has proved a rich creative experience for the Belgian bal folk duo, diatonic accordionists Pascale Rubens and Toon Van...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2021

Review of Alone on a Hill

Alone on a Hill

Katy Rose Bennett

Little House on the Hill Records

Rating: ★★★

Katy Rose Bennett has been performing her Americana-tinged style of folk music for the best part of 20 years. She's...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2021

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