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Review of Kulintang Kultura: Danongan Kalanduyan and Gong Music of the Philippine Diaspora

Kulintang Kultura: Danongan Kalanduyan and Gong Music of the Philippine Diaspora

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★

This album is a celebration Danongan Kalanduyan (1947-2016), a musician who migrated to the US in the 1970s from Mindanao...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Secret Marriage

Secret Marriage

Cači Vorba

Top of the World

Oriente

Rating: ★★★★★

Cači Vorba’s debut album won a German Record Critics' Award last year and was a Top of the World release...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of Ruhabi

Ruhabi

Outhouse Ruhabi

Loop Records Loop1009

Rating: ★★★

Forming musical communities is all the rage for young jazz artists on the London scene. The emerging double-sax quartet Outhouse...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2010

Review of The Life & Times Of…

The Life & Times Of…

The Hot 8 Brass Band

Top of the World

Tru Thoughts

Rating: ★★★★★

The Hot 8 Brass Band have every right to sing the blues. Forced to flee New Orleans due to Hurricane...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of End of the World Remixes

End of the World Remixes

Elza Soares

Mais Um Discos

Rating: ★★★

Remix albums are notoriously a mixed bag and this one's no different, with a handful of Portuguese and Brazilian remixers,...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2017

Review of 공 空 ('Empty')

공 空 ('Empty')

Melanie Eden

Melanie Eden

Rating: ★★★

Melanie Eden is an Australian performance poet and musician who does not do things by halves. Notable for her unvarnished...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2021

Review of Music of the Travellers

Music of the Travellers

Klezmer-ish

Klezmer-ish

Rating: ★★★

This well-executed album is something of an oddity, having been produced by a quartet of musicians who all play in...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: July/2018

Review of Charlie Gillett's Radio Picks: Honky Tonk Vol 2

Charlie Gillett's Radio Picks: Honky Tonk Vol 2

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ace Records

Rating: ★★★

Long before Charlie Gillett became a world music DJ (and guru) he was something of a seer for what's now...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2015

Review of Rhythm Revolution

Rhythm Revolution

Ferry Djimmy

Acid Jazz

Rating: ★★★★★

This album of raw, garage-tinged 1970s Afro-funk comes with the most extraordinary back story. Born Jean Maurille Ogoudjobi in 1939...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Entre l’Érable et le Cocotier

Entre l’Érable et le Cocotier

Pascale LeBlanc

Pascale LeBlanc

Rating: ★★★

Although born in Montréal, singer and multi-instrumentalist Pascale LeBlanc grew up in Haiti, her mother’s homeland. Her songs reflect much...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: January/February/2023

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