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Review of The Colour of Amber

The Colour of Amber

Nick Hart & Tom Moore

Slow Worm Records

Rating: ★★★★

Following his terrific Nick Hart Sings… series, award-winning folk singer, musician and steward of English folk song Hart returns in...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2024

Review of Liminal Silence

Liminal Silence

Sunny Kim, Vardan Ovsepian & Ben Monder

Earshift Music

Rating: ★★★

Now here’s an album that defies easy categorisation, in which Sunny Kim, a Korean-born singer, improviser and composer joins forces...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2024

Review of Terry Riley in C Irish

Terry Riley in C Irish

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Louth Contemporary Music Society

Rating: ★★★★★

1960s’ minimalist guru Terry Riley’s quixotic masterpiece ‘In C’ filtered through the prism of Irish traditional music? On paper it...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2024

Review of Mirror City

Mirror City

Dasom Baek

Métron Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Two instruments evoke Korea like no others: the daegeum bamboo flute (and its smaller equivalent, the sogeum) and the ajaeng...

Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: March/2024

Review of Away Beyond the Fret

Away Beyond the Fret

Honey & The Bear

Honey & The Bear

Rating: ★★★

East Anglian husband and wife duo Lucy and Jon Hart have coincided their third album with the birth of their...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: March/2024

Review of 3

3

Abdullah Ibrahim

Gearbox Records

Rating: ★★★★

Anyone who caught the concert at London’s Barbican last year by veteran South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim will know...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2024

Review of The King of Misery

The King of Misery

Daudi Matsiko

Daudi Matsiko

Rating: ★★★★

Daudi Matsiko, a British-Ugandan singer-songwriter, delivers a debut album from a vulnerable chapter in his life, that expands what is...

Reviewed by Marie Bashiru in issue: March/2024

Review of All That Remained

All That Remained

Lucidvox

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

If there was any naiveté on show in Lucidvox’s last album, We Are, it has surely been worn away by...

Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: March/2024

Review of Échos des Mers du Nord

Échos des Mers du Nord

Nordri

Nordri

Rating: ★★★★★

Considering their deep and mutual love for Nordic music, it’s not hard to see why Québécois foursome Nordri’s debut, Échos...

Reviewed by Andrew Daly in issue: March/2024

Review of Udolç

Udolç

Alba Careta & Henrio

Segell Microscopi

Rating: ★★★★

The Càntut collection is a project dedicated to collecting and disseminating music orally transmitted in the region of Girona, in...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2024

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