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Review of The Fighting Kangaroo

The Fighting Kangaroo

Los 300

Rootsound Music

Rating: ★★★★

The cover looks like an Aussie road sign, but the trio of musicians – who sound like a much bigger...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2018

Review of Awake

Awake

Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage

Proper

Rating: ★★★

There are some beautiful songs opening the second album by this folk duo, building on the impact of their debut...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018

Review of Queens & Kings

Queens & Kings

African Connection

Sounds of Subterrania

Rating: ★★★

This is the debut recording from an Afrobeat and highlife band formed in 2016, comprised of musicians from Ghana, the...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2018

Review of An Introduction to June Tabor	

An Introduction to June Tabor	

June Tabor

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

June Tabor was a student at Oxford (and appeared on University Challenge, no less), and has worked as both a...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2018

Review of Sudbina

Sudbina

Eva Salina & Peter Stan

Vogiton Records

Rating: ★★★

Vida Pavlović was one of the most highly regarded Roma singers to have existed, tragically dying before her time in...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2018

Review of Acoustic Tarab Alchemy

Acoustic Tarab Alchemy

ATA

Odradek

Rating: ★★★

Odradek is a new label that produces and promotes artists on the simple basis of blind auditions from submitted demos....

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2018

Review of Seedlings All

Seedlings All

Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker

Rough Trade

Rating: ★★★★

This is the folk duo's fifth album, their first of all-original songs and, once again, a maturation and development of...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018

Review of Deran

Deran

Bombino

Partisan Records

Rating: ★★★

After making his last two albums in the US with hotshot rock’n’roll producers, the Niger-born Touareg guitarist-poet Omara ‘Bombino’ Moctar...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2018

Review of Cantos

Cantos

Quimantu

Quimantu

Rating: ★★

Chilean music has a low profile in Europe, partly because most of its legendary classic singers and bands are dead...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2018

Review of Tawassol

Tawassol

Gabacho Maroc

10h10 Music

Rating: ★★★

Gabacho Maroc are a Moroccan-French fusion band who merge Moroccan Gnawa styles with funk-jazz. The ensemble consists of Hamid Moumen...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: June/2018

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