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Review of Roots 2

Roots 2

Show of Hands

Hands On Music

Rating: ★★★★

The sense of community created by Devon folk duo Show of Hands is perhaps their greatest achievement. It begins on...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2024

Review of Mokuy

Mokuy

Hand to Earth

Room40

Rating: ★★★★

Two years on from their exquisite self-titled 2021 debut album (five stars in #172), the Hand To Earth ensemble –...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2024

Review of The Musical Threads of the Silk Roads

The Musical Threads of the Silk Roads

Ibantuta

homerecords.be

Rating: ★★★★

Hailing from the Basque country and sharing a name with the great 14th-century explorer who travelled from North Africa all...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2024

Review of Traveling East

Traveling East

Jan Wouter Oostenrijk

Top of the World

Mountain Records

Rating: ★★★★

What makes Dutch guitarist Jan Wouter Oostenrijk’s latest and sixth solo album, Traveling East, stand out is its fascinating fusion...

Reviewed by Franki Clemens in issue: March/2024

Review of Roundelay

Roundelay

Otvaal

Random Drama

Rating: ★★★

Moscow-born duo Otvaal (aka Dmitry Gudnichev and Vlad Stepanov) are a curious addition to the global music scene. Roundelay is...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: March/2024

Review of This is What I Want to Say

This is What I Want to Say

Martyn Joseph

Pipe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Throughout a career spanning 40 years, nearly that many albums and thousands of live performances, the Welsh singer-songwriter with the...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2024

Review of Borderlines & Bloodlines

Borderlines & Bloodlines

Rating: ★★★★★

One of the standout folk albums of 2023 in the UK, which almost flew under the radar, Birmingham-based Germa Adan’s Borderlines...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: March 2024

Review of Desde Espana… La Columna de Fuego

Desde Espana… La Columna de Fuego

La Columna de Fuego

Munster Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Why it’s taken so long for this gem of an album to be reissued is one of those mysteries that...

Reviewed by Russ Slater Johnson in issue: January/February/2024

Review of La Pluma

La Pluma

Rahel Giger & Moussa Cissokho

Rahel Giger

Rating: ★★★

It’s almost impossible to categorise La Pluma other than to suggest it’s sure to appeal to those who don’t like...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2024

Review of Meera

Meera

Kamini Natarajan

Kamini Natarajan

Rating: ★★

Living at a time when women were confined to the home, the 16th-century Hindu mystic-poet Meerabai (bai being an honorific...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: January/February/2024

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