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Review of Medicine Songs

Medicine Songs

Buffy Sainte-Marie

True North Records

Rating: ★★★

Buffy Sainte-Marie was one of the breakout stars of the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene. Not only was she...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2018

Review of Tantabara

Tantabara

Tal National

Fat Cat

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded with minimal equipment in a makeshift studio in their hometown of Niamey, the third international release from Niger's Tal...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2018

Review of Les Voies du Monde

Les Voies du Monde

No Tongues

Les Productions du Mouflon

Rating: ★★★

This group of French avant-garde jazz improvisers are not always an easy listen, but there are rewards to be had...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: April/2018

Review of Below Ground

Below Ground

Effra

Source Records

Rating: ★★★★

The members of Effra have both high-quality musicianship and integrity. They carry both lightly – banter at their gigs is...

Reviewed by Richard Gray in issue: April/2018

Review of Harmonograph

Harmonograph

False Lights

Wreckord label

Rating: ★★★★

A big welcome back to Sam Carter and Jim Moray, whose debut album under the guise of False Lights, Salvor,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2018

Review of A Glint O’ Scottish Fiddle

A Glint O’ Scottish Fiddle

Patsy Reid

Classy Trad Records

Rating: ★★★★

Co-founder of Breabach Patsy Reid is one of the finest fiddle players working the Scottish scene today. A Glint O’...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2018

Review of Here's a Health

Here's a Health

Said the Maiden

Maiden Records

Rating: ★★★

Jess Distill, Hannah Elizabeth and Katy Pilkington discovered a mutual love of folk music after spending their school years together...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2018

Review of La Llorona

La Llorona

Chavela Vargas

Milan

Rating: ★★

While she could play the tragic heroine with a bleeding heart with the best of them, Chavela Vargas was also...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2018

Review of The Transports: A Tale of Exile and Migration

The Transports: A Tale of Exile and Migration

The Transports

Top of the World

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★★

In 1973, the Norfolk singer Peter Bellamy came across the story of Susannah Holmes and Henry Kable, who, their death...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2018

Review of Ahwar

Ahwar

Nadah El Shazly

Nawa Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

This album is here, there and everywhere. Meaning it is jazz; it is traditional Arabic folk; it is avant-garde; it...

Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: April/2018

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