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Review of Needle & Thread

Needle & Thread

Dom Prag

Dom Prag

Rating: ★★★

Dom Prag is a young singer and guitarist from Southampton who discovered the world of traditional folk song when he...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2022

Review of Little Hammam

Little Hammam

Temenik Electric

Nomad Café

Rating: ★★★★

When Songlines reviewed Ouesh Hada?, the 2013 debut album from Temenik Electric, we suggested it would be thrilling to hear...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2022

Review of In My Own Time

In My Own Time

Karen Dalton

Light in the Attic

Rating: ★★★★★

Karen Dalton, who died in 1993 at age 55, was for a brief period in the 1960s the darling dark...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2022

Review of The Long Count

The Long Count

Debit

Top of the World

Modern Love

Rating: ★★★★

On Animus, her 2018 debut album, Mexican-American producer-musician Delia Beatriz aka Debit explored metallic soundscapes, frantic club grooves, pulsing sequences...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2022

Review of Awakening

Awakening

Yungchen Lhamo

Top of the World

Tibetan Arts Management/Six Degrees Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Tibetan singer and composer has been in exile from her birth land for over 30 years. Awakening is her...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: May/2022

Review of Hallival

Hallival

Iona Lane

Iona Lane

Rating: ★★★

Nominative determinism is at work here. Iona is a Hebridean island famed for its wild beauty, spirituality, and ancient stories....

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2022

Review of Fado Jazz

Fado Jazz

Júlio Resende

ACT Music

Rating: ★★★★

Fado Jazz is Júlio Resende’s first album with ACT Music, one of Europe’s leading jazz labels and home to extraordinary...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2022

Review of Vox.Infold

Vox.Infold

Ruby Singh

Killbeat Music

Rating: ★★★★

Ruby Singh is a Canadian musician, composer, filmmaker and sound designer fascinated with mythos, memory, identity and fantasy. He works...

Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: May/2022

Review of Volume II

Volume II

The Armagh Rhymers

The Armagh Rhymers

Rating: ★★★★

The Armagh Rhymers have been fusing ancient and modern, the mundane and the magical, legend and the life lived since...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2022

Review of José Louis and the Paradox of Love

José Louis and the Paradox of Love

Pierre Kwenders

Arts and Crafts

Rating: ★★★★

Pierre Kwenders’ name resonates in many circles. The Kinshasa native, who has been living in Montréal since his mid-teens, has...

Reviewed by Alex DeLacey in issue: May/2022

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