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Review of Oriental Music

Oriental Music

Omar El Shariyi (Ammar El Sherei)

We Want Sounds

Rating: ★★★★

This vinyl-only remaster of the now cult classic album originally released by Cairene label Soutelphan back in 1976 celebrates two...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: January/2021

Review of Home Recordings

Home Recordings

Martin Simpson

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

Simpson was scheduled to deliver a live album this year. Instead, he went home, found a room, pressed record, and...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2021

Review of Café Türk

Café Türk

Café Türk

Zel Zele

Rating: ★★★★

This LP is one of the most welcome releases of the year, and the story behind it is a heart-warming...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: January/2021

Review of Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

GABO – Glasgow African Balafon Orchestra

Glasgow African Balafon Orchestra

Rating: ★★★

Chief Chebe – aka Suleman Chebe – has tirelessly promoted African culture in the UK over the years in a...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/2021

Review of Transe de Papier

Transe de Papier

Lo'Jo

Top of the World

Yotanka

Rating: ★★★★★

Welcome to a world of poetry nourished by multiple musical influences from various remote corners of the planet. The latest...

Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: January/2021

Review of Veracruz: Sones y Flores

Veracruz: Sones y Flores

Duo Coincidencia

Cugate Classics

Rating: ★★★

Think of a male/female acoustic guitar duo, add Mexico to the equation and you may well come up with Rodrigo...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/2021

Review of Safe Passage

Safe Passage

Gitkin

Wonderwheel Recordings

Rating: ★

Fresh out of touring as bandleader for Pimps of Joytime, and a collaboration with CedricBurnside, multi-instrumentalist Brian J explores instrumental...

Reviewed by Thomas Graves in issue: January/2021

Review of Falling Out of Time

Falling Out of Time

Silkroad Ensemble

In a Circle Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Since the Silkroad Ensemble was established by Yo-Yo Ma 20 years ago, its ever- shifting ensemble have created a global...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/2021

Review of Where the World is Thin

Where the World is Thin

Kris Drever

Reveal Records

Rating: ★★★

Kris Drever’s solo albums don’t come that often – 2010’s Mark the Hard Earth was followed six years later by...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2021

Review of Ala Maintso – Green World: Songs from Madagascar

Ala Maintso – Green World: Songs from Madagascar

Modeste Hugues & Kilema

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

The instrument known as the marovany is a Malagasy zither – a hollow, wooden, rectangular-shaped box with 12 metal strings...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: January/2021

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