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Review of From Here

From Here

Stick in the Wheel

From Here Records

Rating: ★★★★

Every couple of years or so, a really good punk band comes along to remind everyone what's really important: saying...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: November/2015

Review of Ani Ukali, Sangai Orali

Ani Ukali, Sangai Orali

Night

Night

Rating: ★★

Here's something a little different, from the new-school folk band Night. They attempt to take the folk traditions – principally...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2015

Review of Mongolie: Chants de Gorge

Mongolie: Chants de Gorge

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Air Mail Music

Rating: ★

This budget CD is a compilation of Mongolian traditional music that only actually features four tracks with throat singing. The...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: November/2015

Review of In Galway

In Galway

Sharon Shannon & Alan Connor

IRL Records

Rating: ★★★

The most recent studio albums by the genre-defying Sharon Shannon, such as Saints and Scoundrels and Flying Circus, have found...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2015

Review of Fatteliku: Live in Athens

Fatteliku: Live in Athens

Youssou N’Dour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar

Real World

Rating: ★★★★

In 1987, when it looked as though global sounds, African music in particular, would take a major share of the...

Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: November/2015

Review of Mud Doll

Mud Doll

Niraj Chag

Buzz-erk Records

Rating: ★★★

Single-handedly produced, recorded, arranged, mixed and mastered by British talent Niraj Chag, this is ambitiously lofty (if occasionally bombastic) cinematic...

Reviewed by Jon Mitchell in issue: November/2015

Review of Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83

Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Soul Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★★★

A dreadlocked mane, popularised eternally by Bob Marley, is an iconic image for Jamaican music. But would Rastafari have become...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: November/2015

Review of Fryd

Fryd

SVER

Folkhall Records

Rating: ★★★★

SVER describe themselves as ‘Norwegian folk music with relentless energy and seductive spark!’ It's the kind of phrase that usually...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2015

Review of Espiral

Espiral

La Jose

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Since shaking off the nationalism of the Franco era, flamenco has looked in many directions to reclaim its roots and...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2015

Review of Amor y Muerte

Amor y Muerte

Voodoo Love Orchestra

Movimientos Records

Rating: ★★

This CD comes with a bright cover illustration and is full of roaring horns and fiery percussion. But this Brighton-based...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2015

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