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Review of Natura Sonora

Natura Sonora

El Búho

Top of the World

Shika Shika

Rating: ★★★★

Though British, Robin Perkins emerged out of the Latin American downtempo scene of the early 2010s under the alias of...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2021

Review of Vangasay

Vangasay

Gwendoline Absalon

Ting Bang

Rating: ★★★

A vangasay is a Type of mandarin orange from Madagascar and Vietnam, popular in the islands across the Indian Ocean...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2020

Review of A Bela Vida

A Bela Vida

Aquarela

Top of the World

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

It's not ofen that the oboe takes the lead in any genre and its pinched tone can sometimes be too...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2020

Review of Castelli

Castelli

A Filetta

World Village

Rating: ★★★

Followers of A Filetta, Corsica's foremost purveyors of ancient polyphonic traditions, might have concerns about their new album, given the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: November/2015

Review of Revolt for Change

Revolt for Change

Ebo Krdum

Epidemic Sound

Rating: ★★★

After his 2021 Top of the World album Diversity, Ebo Krdum has followed up with two albums for the royalty-free...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2023

Review of Ascending

Ascending

Amira Medunjanin & TrondheimSolistene

Town Hill Colony

Rating: ★★★

It's been 15 years since the exquisite Bosnian vocalist Amira first recorded on Mostar Sevdah Reunion's A Secret Gate and...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2019

Review of Georgia: Sacred & Secular Vocal Polyphony

Georgia: Sacred & Secular Vocal Polyphony

Ensemble Basiani

Ocora

Rating: ★★★

Georgian polyphony is one of the most glorious sounds in the world – a dozen or so singers (usually male)...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2012

Review of Where I Come From

Where I Come From

Christy Moore

Sony/Columbia

Rating: ★★★★

If music provides a map of a nation's soul, then Ireland's foremost troubadour, Christy Moore, is a formidable cartographer.There's a...

Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Apr/May/2014

Review of Star Rise: Remixed

Star Rise: Remixed

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★

This is the latest classic in the Real World Gold series. As such, it is a little peculiar, being a...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Gasandji

Gasandji

Gasandji

Plus Loin Music

Rating: ★★★★

Na Lingui Yo' (‘I love you’ in the Congolese language Lingala) is undoubtedly the big hit of this debut album...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

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