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Review of Jinn

Jinn

Jinn

Felmay Records

Rating: ★★★★

While it would be easy to make an album focusing on the similarities between guitar and oud, this debut album...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Review of Bondona

Bondona

Khiyo

Top of the World

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

On the strength of their 2015 debut album Khiyo were nominees in the best group category at the Songlines Music...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Review of Chants du Dedans, Chants du Dehors

Chants du Dedans, Chants du Dehors

Meïkhâneh

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

Hearing Meïkhâneh’s album, Chants du Dedans, Chants du Dehors (Songs from Inside, Songs from Outside), is akin to waking up...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of Live at WOMAD 1982

Live at WOMAD 1982

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★★

Can it really be 40 years since the first WOMAD took place at the Royal Bath and West Showground in...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of Kudu Bisa Kudu

Kudu Bisa Kudu

Balungan

Top of the World

Cuneiform Records

Rating: ★★★★

The French drummer Guigou Chenevier was a founder member of the prog-punk-jazz pioneers Etron Fou Leloublan in 1973. Here he...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of Intercontinental

Intercontinental

Brian Molley Quartet with special guest Krishna Kishor

BGMM Records

Rating: ★★★★

Jazz musicians from Scotland can claim to be the UK’s most exciting exponents on the scene. Saxophonist Brian Molley is...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of Prize Fighter

Prize Fighter

Odia

Jamhut Records

Rating: ★★

Odia are an international trio who recorded this, their debut album, without actually meeting in person. Founder member Stuart Spence...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of Together in Love and Separation

Together in Love and Separation

Chandra Chakraborty & Saskia Griffiths-Moore

Chandra Chakraborty & Saskia Griffiths-Moore

Rating: ★★

Indian classical singer Chandra Chakraborty is joined by London-based singer Saskia Griffiths-Moore in an album that explore themes of love...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of Many Faces

Many Faces

Justin Thurgur

Funkiwala

Rating: ★★★★

The cover of this sophomore album by London-based trombonist Justin Thurgur sums up its questing, fizzing, all-for-one spirit. Here, inside...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of Banjophonics

Banjophonics

Damien O’Kane & Ron Block

Pure Records

Rating: ★★★★

With tune titles including ‘Daisy’s Dance’ and ‘Happy Little Phoebe’ (Daisy and Phoebe being the names of Damien O’Kane’s two...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

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