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Review of First Farewell

First Farewell

Peggy Seeger

Top of the World

Red Grape Music

Rating: ★★★★★

This is a remarkable album by a singersongwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist and writer who grows more impressive as the years go...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2021

Review of Rakes and Misfits

Rakes and Misfits

Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne

Grimdon Records

Rating: ★★★★

Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne plays melodeons and concertinas, including a rare Lachenal 30-key bass Anglo concertina on which he performs ‘parping accompaniment...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2021

Review of Tirana 100

Tirana 100

Tirana-Tirona Allstars

Top of the World

Municipality of Tirana

Rating: ★★★★

Over the last half a century or so there have been many attempts to reveal ‘Europe’s unknown music,’ which usually...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: May/2021

Review of Fall Like Rain

Fall Like Rain

Justin Moses

Mountain Fever Records

Rating: ★★★★

From the opening title-track, a brilliantly rendered bluegrass cover of Eric Clapton’s song from his 1998 LP Pilgrim, to the...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2021

Review of Anticipation

Anticipation

Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter

American Dream Records

Rating: ★★★★

Born out of a tour around Trans-Pecos (west Texas), this first album of instrumental duets by guitarists Knowler and Winter...

Reviewed by Amy Hollinrake in issue: May/2021

Review of Excavated Shellac: An Alternative History of the World’s Music

Excavated Shellac: An Alternative History of the World’s Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Dust-to-Digital

Rating: ★★★★★

What should you give someone who listens to a broad swath of ‘global music’? How about a 100-track compilation of...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2021

Review of A Pegada Agora é Essa

A Pegada Agora é Essa

Antonio Neves

Far Out Records

Rating: ★★★★

This exciting project from multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Antonio Neves asks a simple question: what’s the sound of Rio today? Rather...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: May/2021

Review of Same Self, Same Silence

Same Self, Same Silence

Hossein Alizadeh & Rembrandt Frerichs Trio

Top of the World

Just Listen Records

Rating: ★★★★★

‘Same, same, but different,’ as they like to say in Thailand. The Rembrandt Frerichs Trio released a magnificent album with...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2021

Review of Ambuya!

Ambuya!

Stella Chiweshe

Piranha Records

Rating: ★★★

Piranha Records have delved into their archives, looked in the ‘1987’ box and recovered the record that started it all...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2021

Review of Chinmaya Dunster presents… MELA: Beyond Tradition

Chinmaya Dunster presents… MELA: Beyond Tradition

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Chinmaya Dunster

Rating: ★★

There is no doubting the devotion with which sarod player Chinmaya Dunster, the progenitor of MELA, approaches his musical projects....

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: May/2021

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