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Review of Tam… Tam… Tam…! Reimagined

Tam… Tam… Tam…! Reimagined

Sonzeira de Gilles Peterson

Brownswood Recordings

Rating: ★★★

It's fair to say that Gilles Peterson was bowled over when he heard the lost Brazilian classic Tam… Tam… Tam…!...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2016

Review of Postfolklor

Postfolklor

Ponk

Ponk

Rating: ★★★★

As the album title suggests, Ponk, a Czech acoustic power trio of cimbalom, violin and double bass, take a powerfully...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: December/2016

Review of Symbiosis

Symbiosis

Ross & Ali

Great White Records

Rating: ★★★

Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton are two of the most competent and accomplished pipe and whistle players on the current...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2016

Review of Live Wires

Live Wires

Söndörgő

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

Having spent too long wandering in debilitating heat to track down the Tambura Museum in Slavonski Brod (in eastern Croatia),...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: December/2016

Review of Bite the Bullet

Bite the Bullet

Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra

Axe Attack Records

Rating: ★★★★

Of all the retro bands out there, from Tokyo to New York, the nutty London boys of Madness probably did...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2016

Review of Eilov

Eilov

Gro Marie Svidal

Laerdal Musikkproduksjon

Rating: ★★★★

Mountains, glaciers, fjords – this is the landscape of Jølster in western Norway, just north of Bergen, where Gro Marie...

Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: December/2016

Review of Classical & Contemporary Chinese Music

Classical & Contemporary Chinese Music

Mei Han and Red Chamber

Top of the World

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

Growing up in Maoist China, Mei Han had to undergo numerous hardships to study her chosen instrument, the guzheng (21-stringed...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2016

Review of MM3

MM3

Metá Metá

Jazz Village

Rating: ★★★★

It's slightly disappointing that this São Paulo four-piece's third album opens with a brooding Joy Division-style chord progression that then...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: December/2016

Review of Bumblin’ Creed

Bumblin’ Creed

Padang Food Tigers & Sigbjørn Apeland

Northern Spy Records

Rating: ★★★

Padang Food Tigers operate a craft industry in ambient sound-worlds. Bumblin’ Creed is the third full album to emerge from...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2016

Review of Apikorsim/Heretics

Apikorsim/Heretics

The Klezmatics

World Village

Rating: ★★★

From New York, The Klezmatics have been shaking up the klezmer and Yiddish music scene for 30 years now. So...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2016

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