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Review of This is Broken Folk

This is Broken Folk

Lunatraktors

Broken Folk Records

Rating: ★★★

Percussionist, tap dancer and performance artist Carli Jefferson toured internationally with the physical theatre group Stomp, before meeting non-binary singer...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of This is Frafra Power

This is Frafra Power

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Makkum Records

Rating: ★★★★

This is Frafra Power is one of those rare treats of a compilation album that gives what by all accounts...

Reviewed by Tim Romain in issue: May/2019

Review of This Is Zologo Beat

This Is Zologo Beat

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Makkum

Rating: ★★★★

From the home of kologo music in Ghana's Upper East Region, comes a new dance compilation innovated by one of...

Reviewed by Kirsty Osei-Bempong in issue: June/2023

Review of Towards Other Worlds

Towards Other Worlds

Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra

First World Records

Rating: ★★★

Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra formed in late 2007 at a series of late night Afrobeat sessions at a Leeds-based jazz venue...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: March/2013

Review of The Eternal Return

The Eternal Return

Irfan

Mandalia-Music

Rating: ★★★

Nigh on 30 years from the coining of the term, there remains a certain oddity in styling oneself a ‘world...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2017

Review of One Life to Live

One Life to Live

Phyllis Dillon

Doctor Bird

Rating: ★★★★

The latest in the excellent Doctor Bird reissue series is the sole LP that was released by Jamaican singer Phyllis...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2018

Review of Not One but Another

Not One but Another

Andy Kirkham

Bijou

Rating: ★★★

Andy Kirkham is a British, Norfolk-based folk guitar player and songwriter. His fifth solo album is a reflective affair, consisting...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: October/2015

Review of One Drop of Kindness

One Drop of Kindness

Yungchen Lhamo

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★★

Yungchen Lhamo has been in exile from Tibet since 1989 and One Drop of Kindness, her seventh release, continues her...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: October/2023

Review of Time is Now

Time is Now

Oojami

Sarra Records

Rating: ★★★

Turkish ex-pat Necmi Calvi spent 20 years of his adult life in London; where – under the alias Oojami –...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Out of Many, One Music! Songs That Shaped Jamaica

Out of Many, One Music! Songs That Shaped Jamaica

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Fantastic Voyage

Rating: ★★

The three-CD set Out of Many, One Music! follows the earlier It's Jamaica Jump Blues Time! and Feel So Fine:The...

Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Aug/Sep/2015

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