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Review of Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams

Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams

Washington Phillips

Dust to Digital

Rating: ★★★★

What’s appealingly apparent in the opening moments of this album’s first track, recorded 91 years ago, is that the instrument...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2018

Review of The Waters and the Wild

The Waters and the Wild

Ninebarrow

Ninebarrow

Rating: ★★★

The first two tracks of this third album from the Dorset duo largely sum up the whole set. ‘The Hour...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: May/2018

Review of SOAR

SOAR

Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita

Top of the World

bendigedig

Rating: ★★★★★

Here, at last, is the long-awaited new album from that remarkable duo, the classically trained Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2018

Review of Duo

Duo

Ahmet Aslan & Kemal Dinç

Kalan Müzik

Rating: ★★★★

Ahmet Aslan, born in Dersim – an eastern Turkish province sadly best known for a 1937 Kurdish uprising and its...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2018

Review of Absolutely The… Uniques

Absolutely The… Uniques

The Uniques

Cherry Red Records

Rating: ★★★★

Sweet harmonies reign supreme on this previously ultra-rare Trojan release, available now for the first time since 1968. In Jamaica,...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: May/2018

Review of Nordic Raga

Nordic Raga

Jyotsna Srikanth, Mats Edén, Dan Svensson & Pär Moberg

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★

The fiddle traditions of Sweden and southern India are both long established but are as far apart, musically and...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: May/2018

Review of Yen Ara

Yen Ara

Ebo Taylor

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★

Ebo Taylor has been doing his stuff for more than 60 years now, so he knows how to make an...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2018

Review of Emakhosini

Emakhosini

BCUC

Top of the World

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★★

The latest album from BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness), Emakhosini, takes the listener on a journey that masterfully embodies the...

Reviewed by Franki Black in issue: May/2018

Review of Personae

Personae

Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman

Iscream Music Records

Rating: ★★★★

There is perhaps a word missing – ‘dramatis’ – from the title of the Dartmoor-based duo's fifth album, for they...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2018

Review of Moyuba Baba, Moyuba Yeye

Moyuba Baba, Moyuba Yeye

The London Lucumi Choir

Movimientos

Rating: ★★★★

Now 12 years old, the London Lucumi Choir continues to do extraordinary community-centred arts work and celebrates the rich, syncretistic...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2018

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