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Review of Where to Now?

Where to Now?

Track Dogs

Mondegreen Records

Rating: ★★

Track Dogs, comprising Garrett Wall, Dave Mooney, Howard Brown and Robbie K Jones – two Irishmen, an Englishman and an...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2022

Review of Albat Alawi Op 99

Albat Alawi Op 99

El Khat

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Eyal El Wahab, the young music maker behind El Khat, is a true original. Many of his homemade instruments are...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: May/2022

Review of The SLAM! Years (1983-88)

The SLAM! Years (1983-88)

Hamid El Shaeri

Habibi Funk

Rating: ★★★

Born in Libya but long based in Egypt, Hamid El Shaeri is a superstar of popular Arabic music. This album...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2022

Review of La Vie de Riley

La Vie de Riley

The Riley Family Band

Top of the World

Valcour Records

Rating: ★★★★

They say, ‘the family that plays together, stays together.’ At the home of Cajun accordionist, fiddler and songwriter Steve Riley...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2022

Review of Glendrian

Glendrian

Kenneth I MacKenzie

Caberfeidh Music

Rating: ★★

Composer and multi-instrumentalist MacKenzie’s new release, Glendrian, is a fetching tribute to an area of north-west Scotland which has strong...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2022

Review of Read the Sky

Read the Sky

Oysterband

Running Man Records

Rating: ★★★★

Oysterband have had an impressive history, and they are certainly not finished yet. This is the 12th studio album, the...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2022

Review of Over Fields and Mountains

Over Fields and Mountains

Branko Mataja

Numero Group

Rating: ★★★★★

Over Fields and Mountains is one of those ‘lost’ or ‘outsider’ records that contains the sound of surprise. The late...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2022

Review of Pan Atlantico

Pan Atlantico

Diana Baroni & Simon Drappier

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★★

Pan Atlantico is a powerful and deeply-moving album that fuses Latin, North American and European styles. Performed live, the sound...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: May/2022

Review of Tierra Quemada

Tierra Quemada

Paul Tasker

Yellowroom Records

Rating: ★★★

Largely self-taught, clawhammer banjoist, fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter Paul Tasker renders the nine instrumental compositions on Tierra Quemada with sparkling...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2022

Review of From Transylvania

From Transylvania

Lil Obeah

The Sound of Art to Come

Rating: ★★★★

Where is the meeting point between Romanian folklore and Jamaican-influenced dub? Lil Obeah, from Transylvania, is there, with hints of...

Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: May/2022

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