Reviews

Rey Loj

Petit Indie

Rating: ★★★★

Chilean singer-songwriter Pascuala Ilabaca dances lightly around Chilean musical styles, mixing them with Indian forms she picked up while studying...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2016

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Niteworks

Comann Music

Rating: ★★★

Originating from the Isle of Skye, Niteworks mix traditional and Gaelic influences with electronica to deliver an intriguing and vibrant...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2016

Mulher do Norte

Claudia Aurora

Red Orange Recordings

Rating: ★★★

There is hardly a greater challenge to any fadista than addressing the immaculate and unbeatable Amália Rodrigues’ repertoire. Amália cannot...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2016

Sunda Country: The Art of the Gamelan Degung

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ocora Radio France

Rating: ★★★

Gamelan degung is one of the smaller types of gamelan ensembles. This disc, recorded between 1972 and 1973, features two...

Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: July/2016

Gnoss

Gnoss Music

Rating: ★★★

Gnoss are young Orcadians Graham Rorie (fiddle and mandolin) and Aidan Moodie (guitar and vocals), and this is a confident...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2016

Nha Sunhu

Eneida Marta

Uguru Records

Rating: ★★★★

Think of the music of Guinea-Bissau, and the artists that spring to mind are probably men: Ernesto Dabo, Justino Delgado...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2016

Lichtungen

Matthias Loibner

Top of the World

Traumton Records

Rating: ★★★★★

The hurdy-gurdy is an instrument that lurks slightly in the shadows. It appears in a few folk bands, like Blowzabella,...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2016

Yeominrok

E-Do

Pony Canyon

Rating: ★★★

Although ostensibly a fusion outfit, the South Korean quintet E-Do still sound predominantly traditional in their plundering. Two percussionists and...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2016