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Review of For Him and Her

For Him and Her

Amira Medunjanin

Top of the World

Croatia Records

Rating: ★★★★

Amira Medunjanin made an immediate impact internationally with her debut album Rosa in 2004 with Mostar Sevdah Reunion (a Top...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2020

Review of Spider Tales

Spider Tales

Jake Blount

Top of the World

Free Dirt Records

Rating: ★★★★★

As a teenager growing up in Virginia, Jake Blount played guitar in funk and metal bands until one day he...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2020

Review of Mi Tumbao

Mi Tumbao

José Alberto

Tumi

Rating: ★★★★

Bayamo is one of those small Cuban cities somewhat off the main tourist drag that surprise with their conviviality and...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2020

Review of At the Studio

At the Studio

The Zonke Family

Top of the World

LoLalophon

Rating: ★★★★★

The Zonke family hail from Nyampanda, a small border town on the Zimbabwean side of the boundary with Mozambique. They...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2020

Review of Peacock

Peacock

Dr L Subramaniam & Roby Lakatos

Top of the World

Avanti Classic

Rating: ★★★★

The meeting of two virtuoso violinists from different genres is always interesting. Roby Lakatos is from a long dynasty of...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2020

Review of Shine

Shine

Caroline Keane

Caroline Keane Music

Rating: ★★★★

Caroline Keane has had an increasingly prominent presence on the Irish and international touring circuit since she was 15. Now...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2020

Review of Dark Matter

Dark Matter

Shane Howard

Goanna Aits

Rating: ★★★★

Ever since 1982, when Australia’s I Goanna band gifted I radio stations their enduring Top 10 hit ‘Solid Rock’, the...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2020

Review of Obi

Obi

Yutaka Oyama

Sony Music

Rating: ★★★

Yutaka Oyama is a master of the Tsugaru shamisen school in Japan, having learned at the foot of his grandfather,...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: October/2020

Review of Los Duendes de la Marimba

Los Duendes de la Marimba

Dinastía Torres

Top of the World

Palenque Records

Rating: ★★★★

This album was recorded in the house of the Torres family (keepers of the Torres dynasty, masters of Colombia’s Pacific...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2020

Review of Rivages

Rivages

Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

This is a very beautiful album of accordion and guitar. French accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier has appeared on several ECM albums,...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2020

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