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Review of Alkisah

Alkisah

Senyawa

Phantom Limb

Rating: ★★★★

Together for a decade, the Indonesian duo Senyawa have a root sound that could lie in a traditional ceremony, though...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2021

Review of Color de Trópico

Color de Trópico

VARIOUS ARTISTS

El Palmas Music

Rating: ★

The mining of South America's lost music archives continues apace, seemingly unimpeded by anything new and exciting. This vinyl, compiled...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2021

Review of The Art of the Duduk

The Art of the Duduk

Haïg Sarikouyoumdjian

Ocora Radio France

Rating: ★★★

The glorious 11th-century Varagavank monastery on the front of this CD shows that architecture is one of the great achievements...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2021

Review of Solas an Lae

Solas an Lae

Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & Ultan O'Brien

Top of the World

Watercolour Music

Rating: ★★★★

Fiddler Ultan O'Brien and singer Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin have been one of Ireland's best-kept secrets in recent years. Having first...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2021

Review of Lunar Tredd

Lunar Tredd

Fimber Bravo

Top of the World

Moshi Moshi Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Fimber Bravo may not be Trinidad's best-known steel pan player. His skill comes instead through experimentation, a creative approach that...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2021

Review of This Old House

This Old House

Bran Sanders

Bran Sanders

Rating: ★★★

Bran Sanders hails from Shallow Lake in rural Ontario, though he's since lived a semi-nomadic, busking way through life on...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2021

Review of While I Sit and Watch This Tree

While I Sit and Watch This Tree

Lizabett Russo

Last Night From Glasgow

Rating: ★★★★

Lizabett Russo is a cool, gently hypnotic singer whose songs drift effortlessly between folk and jazz, with echoes of her...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2021

Review of Songs Beyond Words

Songs Beyond Words

A Moving Sound

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Performing together for more than 20 years, the husband and wife team of vocalist Mia Hsieh, a Taiwan native, and...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: March/2021

Review of Çhâñt Électrónïqúe Vol 1

Çhâñt Électrónïqúe Vol 1

Chant Electronique

Rika Muzika

Rating: ★★★

‘We are very, very curious,' this aptly named international seven-piece collective suggests – and what a curious album this is....

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2021

Review of Jamboree: The Album

Jamboree: The Album

Oily Cart

Oily Cart

Rating: ★★★

Now here's a really cheering and worthwhile project, which is exactly what you would expect from Oily Cart. It's a...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2021

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