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Review of Putumayo Presents: Vintage Italia

Putumayo Presents: Vintage Italia

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Putumayo World Music

Rating: ★★★

Putumayo clearly have a loyal following, although I've personally always been turned off by the twee cover art and their...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: July/2017

Review of The Scorpios

The Scorpios

The Scorpios

Afro7 Records

Rating: ★★★

The Scorpios are a ten-piece band with most members originating from Khartoum in Sudan, and are now based in London...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2017

Review of Where the River Meets the Road

Where the River Meets the Road

Tim O'Brien

Howdy Skies Records

Rating: ★★★★

Classic country and bluegrass fans – folks who revere Bill Monroe, Porter Wagoner, Buck Owens, Flatt & Scruggs and the...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2017

Review of Dengue Fever (Deluxe Edition)

Dengue Fever (Deluxe Edition)

Dengue Fever

TUK TUK Records

Rating: ★★★

Since forming in 2001, the Los Angeles-based band Dengue Fever have gained an avid following for their blend of retro...

Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: July/2017

Review of Songs from Mexico

Songs from Mexico

Yuly Tovar

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

It would be easy to write off Yuly Tovar as merely the 2012 winner of Mexican nationwide talent show, Graba...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2017

Review of Stones

Stones

Boreas

Sabam Records

Rating: ★★★

This is not the Norwegian-Scots four-piece featuring Rachel Newton, whose Ahoy Hoy was a 2016 highlight. This Boreas, named after...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2017

Review of High Words

High Words

Jewish Monkeys

Greedy for Best Music

Rating: ★★★

My first inclination was to award this album a single star. These songs are annoyingly catchy, and they're annoyingly unfunny,...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2017

Review of Dance of the Copper Trail

Dance of the Copper Trail

Oka Vanga

Crazy Bird Records

Rating: ★★★★

For husband and wife duo Oka Vanga's 2014 debut Pilgrim, they recorded a set of beautifully pure, mainly original instrumental...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: June/2017

Review of Westward

Westward

Éilís Kennedy

Éilís Kennedy

Rating: ★★★

One half of Irish duo Lumiere, with Pauline Scanlon, Éilís Kennedy hails from Dingle, Co Kerry in the west of...

Reviewed by Rachel Cunniffe in issue: June/2017

Review of Great British Gharana

Great British Gharana

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Milapfest 2 CDs & book

Rating: ★★★★

The idea of a ‘great British gharana’ – a tradition or school of music – was thought up in 2011...

Reviewed by Amar Dhillon in issue: June/2017

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