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Review of Songs from a Rocking Chair

Songs from a Rocking Chair

The Quiet American

Hearth Music

Rating: ★★★

If old-time, pre-World War II Americana is your thing, then Aaron and Nicole Keim, the husband-and-wife singing duo collectively known...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2014

Review of Childhood Home

Childhood Home

Ben & Ellen Harper

Decca Records

Rating: ★★★

In hindsight, it seems like a natural, perhaps inevitable, undertaking. Put the son, a multiple-Grammy-winning, world renowned singer-songwriter and guitarist,...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Ancient Sufi Invocations & Forgotten Songs From Aleppo

Ancient Sufi Invocations & Forgotten Songs From Aleppo

Nawa

Electric Cowbell Records

Rating: ★★★★

When Jason Hamacher, a punk drummer in Washington DC, read William Dalrymple's From the Holy Mountain, he contacted the author...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of El Vol Dispers

El Vol Dispers

Clara Sanabras

Smudged Discs

Rating: ★★★

Roots or world music artists who sing in English often met with a certain snobbery in the past, but multi-instrumentalist...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Dot the Dragon's Eyes

Dot the Dragon's Eyes

Hanneke Cassel

Cassel Records

Rating: ★★★

The surest vindication of the praise bestowed on Cassel by the Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser is the final track of...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Dawn

Dawn

Magos & Limón

Okeh Records

Rating: ★★★★

Javier Limón, from Madrid, is best known as a flamenco guitarist and producer for the likes of Paco de Lucía...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Suites

Suites

Jacky Molard Quartet

Top of the World

Innacor Records

Rating: ★★★★★

The third album from veteran Breton violinist Jacky Molard and his instrumental quartet furthers Molard's ongoing mission of crossing musical...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Quick Sparrows Over the Black Earth

Quick Sparrows Over the Black Earth

Laura Cannell

Brawl Records

Rating: ★★★

The interesting album title has been taken from one of the Greek poet Sappho's fragments. It suggests Cannell seeks in...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Far Out Presents: Friends From Rio Project 2014

Far Out Presents: Friends From Rio Project 2014

Friends From Rio

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★

Far Out are 20 years old this year and to celebrate they are releasing this, a continuation of the two...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Afro-Colombian Sound Modernizers

Afro-Colombian Sound Modernizers

Son Palenque

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★

South and Central America are dotted with communities made up of the descendants of African slaves who escaped their oppressors....

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

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