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11/02/2025 Ed Pinsent

Fountain of Youth

Unusual Norwegian music on Collage (HUBRO HUBROCD2655) – I think it’s mostly the Erlend Apneseth Trio, but they are joined

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02/02/2025 Ed Pinsent

Phone Calls from the Future

Remarkable item from Helsinki – Taas Kerran, Äkkiä (BAFE’S FACTORY MBA054) is credited to Hannu Saha and Pakasteet, the latter

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26/11/2024 nausika

Contos da Casa do Lobo: a collection of dark folk tales, told in blackened folk noise psychedelia

Durvena Cabina, Contos da Casa do Lobo, Portugal, Rasga, cassette (2024) It’s a pity this album, the second by Portuguese

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24/06/2024 Ed Pinsent

Potato Hash

Magic Tuber Stringband are an acoustic duo from Durham in North Carolina, Courtney Werner and Evan Morgan, heard here on

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29/03/2024 nausika

Ecclesia Gnostica: an ambitious melodic black metal debut in esoteric spirituality and Gnostic philosophy

A/Oratos, Ecclesia Gnostica, France, Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions, AO 230 CD / LPAO-231 vinyl LP (2024) Nearly five years

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16/03/2024 nausika

GOJO: a lively fusion of Ethiopian and Western instruments and elements harking back to the golden age of Ethiopian jazz

Fendika & K-Sanchis, GOJO, Switzerland, 121234.records, FBL 007 vinyl LP (2023) Released early in 2023, “GOJO” is the result of

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12/03/2024 nausika

Mutations: a vision of a future hybrid culture of African tradition and modern electronic technology

Faizal Mostrixx, Mutations, Germany, Glitterbeat, GBLP 141 vinyl LP (2023) Faizal Mostrixx is a man on a mission: bringing together

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19/01/2024 nausika

Carry Them With Us: Scottish Gaelic folklore given new life by smallpipes and saxophone duo

Brìghde Chaimbeul, Carry Them With Us, Germany, Glitterbeat, GB 139 CD / vinyl LP (2023) Albums of instrumental music centred

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03/01/2024 Ed Pinsent

The Bonny Bunch of Roses

UK singer Sharron Kraus is one I’ve tended to associate with traditional English folk and ballad form, and her imaginative

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19/12/2023 nausika

Le d​é​sespoir utopique: eclectic selection of genre elements results in a wistful and complex meditation on human displacement

Forêt Endormie, Le d​é​sespoir utopique, Fiadh Productions, United States, FP210 cassette / vinyl LP (2023) In an age when, according

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