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Review of Uncle Roland’s Flying Machine

Uncle Roland’s Flying Machine

Moishe’s Bagal

Top of the World

Eachday Music

Rating: ★★★★

Fans of this brilliant six-man band have been expecting this disc and it's been well worth the wait. Glen Baxter's...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Actitud Calle

Actitud Calle

Los de Abajo

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★

With a Banksy-style graphic on the cover, a photo from the commemorative marchofthe 40th anniversary of the 1968 student massacre...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Rewend

Rewend

Aynur

Arista/Sony

Rating: ★★★★

On this album, Aynur gives us what is probably her more satisfactory effort to date, due especially to the well-thought...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of In a Hoary Winter’s Night

In a Hoary Winter’s Night

Joglaresa

Joglaresa

Rating: ★★★

Joglaresa’s fifth album is a selection of ‘Irish and English Songs of Wintertide’. There is a wi de ra n...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Ancestors Call

Ancestors Call

Huun Huur Tu

Top of the World

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

These extremely well recorded new versions of songs familiar to Tuvan throat singing fans (mainly from 1994's The Orphan's Lament...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Eplemøya Songlag

Eplemøya Songlag

Eplemøya Songlag

NORCD

Rating: ★★★★

My first experience of Eplemøya Songlag was in an old fashioned wooden room in the old Bank building in the...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & Friends: The Black Ark Years

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & Friends: The Black Ark Years

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Trojan

Rating: ★★★★

When Trojan Records became part of the giant Universal Music, reggae collectors might well have feared that the previous stream...

Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Trance Gamelan in Bali

Trance Gamelan in Bali

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

If you can imagine a piece of cutting-edge electronica being played over the “party in the background” noises that you...

Reviewed by John Whitfieldft in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Sweet England

Sweet England

Shirley Collins

Fledgling Records

Rating: ★★★★

Released in 1959 on Argo, this album comes from the beginning of the folk revival, and Fledgling’s remaster from the...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Kigali Y’Izahabu

Kigali Y’Izahabu

The Good Ones

Dead Oceans

Rating: ★★

The most exciting thing about Kigali Y'Izahabu is that it is potentially going to reach an audience who might not...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

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