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Review of Tules Maas Vedes Taivaal

Tules Maas Vedes Taivaal

Tuuletar

Top of the World

Bafe''s Factory

Rating: ★★★★

This is the debut recording of one of Finland's most dynamic new groups. The four young women who comprise Tuuletar...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2017

Review of Fly Bird, Fly

Fly Bird, Fly

Muzsikas

Nascente

Rating: ★★★★

Muzsikás are Hungary’s premier folk band and, for nearly 40 years, the leading international ambassadors of traditional Hungarian music. They...

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

Review of An Introduction to the Watersons/Waterson:Carthy

An Introduction to the Watersons/Waterson:Carthy

The Watersons

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Now this must have been quite a job, albeit a highly rewarding and enjoyable one: concertina-ing the recordings of The...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2018

Review of Afrika Muye Muye!: Tanzanian Rumba and Muziki Wa Dansi (1968-1970)

Afrika Muye Muye!: Tanzanian Rumba and Muziki Wa Dansi (1968-1970)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Recordiana

Rating: ★★★★

Put together by music historian and archivist Rob Allingham with research and translation help from Werner Graebner, Afrika Muye Muye!...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2024

Review of Anthology of Moravian Folk Music Vol 3: Straznicko a Kyjovsko

Anthology of Moravian Folk Music Vol 3: Straznicko a Kyjovsko

Petr Micka | VARIOUS ARTISTS

Indies Happy Trails

Rating: ★★★

The first albums here are the final two volumes of the four-part Anthology of Moravian Folk Music. Moravia has very...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

Review of Anthology 2

Anthology 2

Fela Kuti

Wrasse 200

Rating: ★★★★

How to collect the music of Fela Kuti has long challenged record buyers. His original vinyl albums tended to contain...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of The Tunis Diaries

The Tunis Diaries

Emel

Partisan Records

Rating: ★★

This is a sprawling double album from the highly cosmopolitan and experimental Tunisian-born, New York-based singer-songwriter Emel. Hot on the...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2021

Review of 66-76

66-76

Hugh Masekela

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★★★

When Masekela arrived in New York in the early 1960s, his fellow trumpeter Miles Davis took the exile to one...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Review of Saar

Saar

Estbel

Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★★★

This quartet could be said to be a kind of quintet, their phantom fifth member being the Baltic island of...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: March/2018

Review of In Mumbai

In Mumbai

Fraser Fifield

Fraser Fifield

Rating: ★★★★

Equally at home in both the trad and jazz worlds, saxophonist, piper and whistler Fraser Fifield is one of those...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2020

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