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Review of The Bird Who Sings Freedom

The Bird Who Sings Freedom

Georgia Lewis

RootBeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Though this is the debut album from Wiltshire folk singer Georgia Lewis, she has been performing as a trio with...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2017

Review of Northbound

Northbound

Assembly Lane

Assembly Lane

Rating: ★★★★

There is a lot to like about this debut album from Newcastle-based four-piece Assembly Lane. Comprising mandolin player Tom Kimber,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2017

Review of Afterglow

Afterglow

Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings

Navigator Records

Rating: ★★★

After Bellowhead disbanded in 2016, Jon Boden set about regrouping his band The Remnant Kings to record Afterglow, with fellow...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2017

Review of Turmoil & Tinfoil

Turmoil & Tinfoil

Billy Strings

Hearth Music

Rating: ★★★★

Something must be wrong with my ears. Every advance review of Turmoil & Tinfoil, the debut album by Nashville-based fourth-generation...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2017

Review of Going Home

Going Home

Joe Newberry & April Verch

Slab Town Records

Rating: ★★★★

Since her debut in 2000, Canadian fiddler April Verch has sounded ever more confident both at soloing and at supporting...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: December/2017

Review of Viajando Com O Som

Viajando Com O Som

Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo Vice Versa

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Widely regarded as Brazil's most preternaturally gifted musician, Hermeto Pascoal has covered an incredible amount of creative ground in his...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: December/2017

Review of Andina: The Sound of the Peruvian Andes, Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia 1968-1978

Andina: The Sound of the Peruvian Andes, Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia 1968-1978

Various Artists

Tiger''s Milk Records

Rating: ★★★★

It's become fashionable – or at least SEO-savvy – to give records epic subtitles. This album's subtitle is ‘The Sound...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2017

Review of Carry Fire

Carry Fire

Robert Plant

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★★

The follow-up to 2014's Lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar is hardly a world music album in any conventional sense. But...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2017

Review of Beches Indian Brew

Beches Indian Brew

Bengt Berger

Country & Eastern

Rating: ★★★

As a more globalised world emerged in the 1960s and 70s, the Swedish jazz drummer Bengt Berger (aka Beche) kept...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2017

Review of The São Paulo Tapes

The São Paulo Tapes

Mônica Vasconcelos

MOVAS

Rating: ★★★★

On reading that Robert Wyatt came out of retirement to produce Vasconcelos' eighth album (having previously worked with her on...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: December/2017

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