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Review of Pervane: Fl0yet fra Guds Hand

Pervane: Fl0yet fra Guds Hand

Sølvguttene & Kudsi Erguner

Kirkelig Kultureverksted

Rating: ★★★

Turkey is famous as a meeting point of East and West. Fittingly, Pervane (Butterfly) is a piece that was created...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2014

Review of Raizes

Raizes

Adriano Adewale

Caboclo

Rating: ★★★

As one of the UK’s most prolific Brazilian musicians, the percussionist Adriano Adewale has amassed an impressive list of credits...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2014

Review of Weltensprung

Weltensprung

Fei Scho

Galileo Music

Rating: ★★★★

Weltensprung is a spine-tingling contemporary look at Bavarian folk music. The title itself translates roughly to ‘world jump.’ With this...

Reviewed by Mike Fleck in issue: June/2014

Review of Wide Open

Wide Open

Ross Ainslie

Great White Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Following his recent collaboration with Jarlath Henderson on their 2013 release Air-fix, Ross Ainslie delivers another fine set of mainly...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2014

Review of All Life is Here

All Life is Here

Harp and a Monkey

Moonraker Records

Rating: ★★★★

Harp and a Monkey, as the abrupt band name suggests, are a plain-speaking Lancastrian folk group. Frontman Martin Purdy tells...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2014

Review of Lion City

Lion City

Dirtmusic

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★

Dirtmusic is an ongoing collaboration between Australian Hugo Race, an early member of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds, and American Chris...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2014

Review of Alsahraa

Alsahraa

Amira Kheir

Sterns Music

Rating: ★★

On her first album, View from Somewhere, the London-based Sudanese-Italian singer Amira Kheir explored the various musical traditions of Sudan....

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: June/2014

Review of Pasichigare: Mystic Mbira Music of Zimbabwe

Pasichigare: Mystic Mbira Music of Zimbabwe

Chipindura Mbira Trio

Chartwell Dutiro (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★★

Chartwell Dutiro is the artistic director of the Mhararano Mbira Academy in Devon, England. He is one of the leading...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2014

Review of El Baile de las Horas

El Baile de las Horas

Marinah

Montuno

Rating: ★★

Marina Abad was the powerful, husky-voiced fulcrum of flamenco, hip-hop, Latin fusioneers Ojos de Brujo until they disbanded in 2011....

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2014

Review of My Vote Dey Count

My Vote Dey Count

Yaaba Funk

Sterns Music

Rating: ★★★★

Yaaba Funk are very much a London band: British and European, black and white, mixed-gender and politically engaged but intent...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2014

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