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Review of Antipodes

Antipodes

I Fratelli Tarzanelli

Appel Rekords

Rating: ★★

This ill-Focused collection of ‘found sound’ excerpts mixed in with live performances – conducted, presumably, on the streets – and...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2016

Review of Up River Overseas

Up River Overseas

Old Salt

Appel Rekords

Rating: ★★

Old Salt are a six-piece collective of musicians from the US, Belgium, Sweden and Scotland who first came together at...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2016

Review of Granada 1013-1502

Granada 1013-1502

Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI & La Capella Reial de Catalunya

AliaVox

Rating: ★★★★★

On his new theme album, named after Granada – the city that epitomised Muslim rule in Spain and also witnessed...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: October/2016

Review of ShadowLines

ShadowLines

FLUX

Top of the World

Prisms

Rating: ★★★★

Those who know the work of British composer, producer and musician Shammi Pithia will know to expect a dreamy, cinematic...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2016

Review of Storied Sounds

Storied Sounds

Tuulikki Bartosik

RootBeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Accordionist and composer Tuulikki Bartosik made quite an impression with her previous album, Chatterbox, with Hannah James. Her latest project,...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2016

Review of Live at WOMEX Budapest

Live at WOMEX Budapest

Ági Herczku & Band

Fonó Music

Rating: ★★★

Ágnes Herczku and her band, led by Nikola Parov, are standout musicians on the Hungarian folk scene, and their album...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2016

Review of Shadows

Shadows

O’Hooley & Tidow

No Masters

Rating: ★★★★

It's been a productive few years for the acclaimed and distinctive English art-folk duo of Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow....

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2016

Review of The Fluid Piano

The Fluid Piano

Utsav Lal

Fluid Piano Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

It certainly sounds like a piano. But not as you know it. Against a drone of tambura, pianist Utsav Lal...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2016

Review of Lament for Syria

Lament for Syria

Sufi – Jan Ibro Khelil

Top of the World

Etnisk Musikklubb

Rating: ★★★★

A former teacher and journalist in his native Syria, Jan Ibro Khelil fled to Norway in 2010 and was granted...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016

Review of Dakan

Dakan

Adama Dramé

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

In the world of the djembé, we have progressed a long way from CDs of traditional dance drumming captured purely...

Reviewed by Barak Schmool in issue: October/2016

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