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Review of Spleen

Spleen

Smadj

Jazz Village

Rating: ★★★★

Since 2000, with Equilibriste, Franco-Tunisian artist Smadj has broadened the limits of his electrified oud's sound through the band DuOud,...

Reviewed by Jean Berry in issue: October/2015

Review of Retratos Cinéticos

Retratos Cinéticos

OrBlua

Ocarina Music

Rating: ★★★

The appeal of the OrBlua trio rests mainly in their rawness. Retratos Cinéticos sounds like its recordings were merely an...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2015

Review of Nomad Songs

Nomad Songs

Stephan Micus

ECM Records

Rating: ★★

For his 21st ECM album, Stephan Micus employs no fewer than nine instruments from different cultures, but focuses principally on...

Reviewed by Michael Church in issue: October/2015

Review of Seiva

Seiva

Seiva

Galileo Music

Rating: ★★

For some years now, Vasco Ribeiro Casais has built a well-earned reputation for being one of the most original and...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2015

Review of The Wayward Tour Live

The Wayward Tour Live

Eliza Carthy & Jim Moray

Scarlet Records

Rating: ★★★★

Following on from Wayward Daughter Eliza Carthy's double-CD Best Of set, The Wayward Tour Live is a CD and DVD...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2015

Review of Le 3ème Temps

Le 3ème Temps

Sophie Cavez & Baltazar Montanaro

Internexterne

Rating: ★★★

This is the third duo album from Belgian accordionist Sophie Cavez and French fiddler Baltazar Montanaro and it shows off...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2015

Review of Musique de Nuit

Musique de Nuit

Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal

Top of the World

No Format!

Rating: ★★★★

Two musicians operating at the height of their talent, Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal have mastered string instruments worlds apart...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: October/2015

Review of Big Box of Afrosound

Big Box of Afrosound

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Vampisoul VINYL ONLY

Rating: ★★★★

This eminently collectable box set of ten vinyl 7” singles will be a boon to any DJ overburdened by the...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2015

Review of Shell Story

Shell Story

Twelfth Day

Orange Feather Records

Rating: ★★★

Described as a ‘sister companion release’ to last year's The Devil Makes Three, four of the seven tracks on this...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2015

Review of Boom

Boom

Electro Rumbaiao

Satélite K

Rating: ★

Sometimes musical fusions just don’t work, and this is a prime example. Partnering the Spanish producer, and founder of Ojos...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2015

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