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Review of Una y Otra Vez

Una y Otra Vez

Sergent Garcia

Cumbancha

Rating: ★★★

Bruno Garcia is very much of the school of Manu Chao: a punk rocker in Paris in the 1980s of...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: June/2011

Review of Les Bushinengé: Nèg Mawon de Guyane

Les Bushinengé: Nèg Mawon de Guyane

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

The Bushinengé people from French Guiana and Suriname are descended from escaped slaves who fled to the Amazon and intermarried...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019

Review of How to Tune a Fish

How to Tune a Fish

Beoga

Compass Records

Rating: ★★

Just four years since the Irish band's debut A Lovely Madness comes Beoga's fourth album How to Tune a Fish...

Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: October/2011

Review of Chant Amazigh

Chant Amazigh

Majid Soula

Habibi Funk

Rating: ★★★★

Even devoted followers of Algerian music may find the name Majid Soula rings no bells – thankfully, the latest (number...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2022

Review of Frigya

Frigya

Imed Alibi feat Khalil EPI

Top of the World

Shouka

Rating: ★★★★

Imed Alibi is a Tunisian percussionist with a curious mind. Not content to take the predictable path, his two previous...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2022

Review of Nicola Conte Presents Viagem 5

Nicola Conte Presents Viagem 5

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

If you’re one of those people for whom vintage Brazilian music never grows old, Nicola Conte’s annual collections of rare...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2013

Review of El Clan Antillano

El Clan Antillano

El Clan Antillano

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★

A lurid cover, featuring decor worthy of a dream sequence from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, is not the only distinguishing...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2024

Review of Canhoto de Pé

Canhoto de Pé

Thiago França

YB Music

Rating: ★★★★

Since his first recordings in 2009 Thiago França has covered a remarkable variety of genres, from the Afro-jazz-punk of MetaL...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: December/2024

Review of Whispering Sky

Whispering Sky

Tenzin Choegyal

4000 Records

Rating: ★★★★

Tibetan musician and composer Tenzin Choegyal has been in exile from his home country since the 1970s and based in...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: December/2024

Review of Bhangra Rangeela

Bhangra Rangeela

Red Baraat

Sinj Records

Rating: ★★★★

Red Baraat, the Brooklyn-based South Asian brass band with a list of great albums over the years, hardly need any...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2025

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