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Review of Har Dam Sahara

Har Dam Sahara

Rafiki Jazz

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Rafiki Jazz are a Sheffield-based band whose mission statement is to ‘create music that crosses cultural boundaries.’ Thankfully the results...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2017

Review of Gammelt, Nyt, Lånt og Blåt

Gammelt, Nyt, Lånt og Blåt

Rannok

Go Danish Folk Music

Rating: ★★★

Rannok's Michael Graubæk (fiddle and mandolin) and Theis Langlands (piano and pump organ) are both well-established musicians in the Danish...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2017

Review of Inclined to be Red

Inclined to be Red

Greg Russell

Fellside Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Greg Russell is an English folk singer on a mission. With the boundless energy of youth, he has been racing...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2017

Review of Resonance

Resonance

Bart Willoughby

Bart Willoughby

Rating: ★★★

The musical pedigree of Pitjantjatjara man Bart Willoughby goes back to the late 1970s, when he founded the pioneering Aboriginal...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2017

Review of The Rough Guide to Ragtime Blues

The Rough Guide to Ragtime Blues

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★

World Music Network seem to issue their Rough Guides to The Blues at an almost monthly rate – which suggests...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2017

Review of Souffles des Steppes

Souffles des Steppes

Henri Tournier & Enkhjargal Dandarvaanchig

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★★

Souffles des Steppes (Breath of the Steppes) is the follow-up to the excellent 2015 album Souffles du Monde, on which...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: October/2017

Review of Tales of Indian Sarod

Tales of Indian Sarod

Pradeep Barot, Riccardo Battaglia, Federico Sanesi

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

Pradeep Barot studied under Annapurna Devi – a surbahar (bass sitar) virtuoso, daughter of the legendary Allauddin Khan and once...

Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: October/2017

Review of Basant

Basant

The Dhol Foundation

ECC Records

Rating: ★★★

Johnny Kalsi has been running the Dhol Foundation now for more than 25 years, while also banging his double-sided Punjabi...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2017

Review of Mali Blues: The Film Soundtrack

Mali Blues: The Film Soundtrack

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Gruenrekorder

Rating: ★★★

This is the soundtrack to a documentary by the German filmmaker Lutz Gregor, which chronicles the return to Mali of...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2017

Review of Veer

Veer

Griselda Sanderson & Ricardo de Noronha

Waulk Records

Rating: ★★★

Griselda Sanderson and Ricardo de Noronha met on stage a couple of years ago and have been making music together...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2017

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