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Review of Zoo of Songs

Zoo of Songs

Pulsar Trio

T3 Records

Rating: ★★★★

German group Pulsar Trio have transplanted the emblematic instrument of Hindustani classical music – the sitar – into a northern...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Review of Exile Vibration

Exile Vibration

Kyab Yul-Sa

Nangma Productions

Rating: ★★★

Kyab Yul-Sa is a collaboration between Lobsang Chonzor and French musicians Margaux Liénard (fiddle, bouzouki) and Julien Lahaye (percussion). The...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Review of The Next Generation

The Next Generation

Groundation

Baco Records

Rating: ★★★

Groundation are a reggae group who formed at Sonoma State University in 1998. The original members were all studying jazz...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Review of Whorls

Whorls

Kittel & Co

Top of the World

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★★

Jeremy Kittel's last album, Chasing Sparks, is one of the most perfect fiddle albums you could ever hope to hear....

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Review of Sway

Sway

Gérald Toto

No Format!

Rating: ★★★★

Gérald Toto has kept us waiting seven years for a new solo album. The French-Antillean multi-instrumentalist does not disappoint with...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Review of The Alchemy

The Alchemy

Elements

Earth Brother Music

Rating: ★★★★

Very often discs that are presented as fusion are rather samey and do not so much fuse a number of...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Review of Quest

Quest

Out of Nations

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★

Although dwelling in Berlin, the Out of Nations six-piece soon discovered that each of them had passports for different countries,...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Review of Naktės

Naktės

Merope

Granvat

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded in small, cosy rooms and only after dark, this album glitters with a sense of wonder at the special...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Review of Haven

Haven

We Banjo 3

We Banjo 3

Rating: ★★★★

We Banjo 3's infatuation with bluegrass puts down its deepest roots yet in this fervent follow-up to 2016's String Theory....

Reviewed in issue November/2018

Review of Anba Tonèl

Anba Tonèl

Bellegarde

Bellegarde

Rating: ★★★

The Montréal percussionist Daniel Bellegarde is devoted to old-time Caribbean ballroom music, in which Africa met Europe in the Creole...

Reviewed in issue November/2018

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