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Review of Bad for Business

Bad for Business

Adrian + Meredith

Adrian + Meredith

Rating: ★★★

Welcome to the Nashville living room of Adrian and Meredith Krygowski, where they and a few friends have worked on...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2021

Review of Bondona

Bondona

Khiyo

Top of the World

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

On the strength of their 2015 debut album Khiyo were nominees in the best group category at the Songlines Music...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2022

Review of Nigeria Freedom Sounds!

Nigeria Freedom Sounds!

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Soul Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★★

Subtitled ‘Popular Music and the Birth of Independent Nigeria,’ these 23 tracks were all recorded more than half a century...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016

Review of Do You Know a Place Called Flekkeröy?

Do You Know a Place Called Flekkeröy?

Dawda Jobarteh

Ajabu!

Rating: ★★★★

Scandinavia in recent years has provided a home for many fine African musicians and the Gambian-born Denmark-based kora player Dawda...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2022

Review of Meuseucca Servadze

Meuseucca Servadze

Teres Aoutes String Band

Cromo Music

Rating: ★★★★

From Piedmont Teres Aoutes (Piedmont Highlands) comes this fresh force in Italian folk music. Made up of singer and mandolinist...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: April/2023

Review of Leaves That Fly

Leaves That Fly

Kim Richards

Self Released

Rating: ★★★

Leaves That Fly is the debut album from Glasgow-based Kim Richards and a beautiful and heartfelt release it is too....

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2019

Review of Long Time… Seldom Scene

Long Time… Seldom Scene

The Seldom Scene

Smithsonian Folkways

Rating: ★★★

After four decades, The Seldom Scene is a band showing no signs of wavering enthusiasm or wandering from their chosen...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of North Cape

North Cape

Nic Zuppardi

North Cape Records

Rating: ★★★

The name Nic Zuppardi may be unfamiliar but this master of the mandolin has, for over a decade, been part...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2023

Review of Man No Die

Man No Die

Bola Johnson

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★

Bola Johnson has been one of the finds in the recent plethora of re c ent Nigerian highlife/Afro-funk archive reissues....

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Silk & Stone

Silk & Stone

Amira Medunjanin

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

Amira Medunjanin is one of the great voices of the Balkans. A decade ago her album Rosa was a fantastic...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2015

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