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Review of What Goes Up

What Goes Up

Chicago Afrobeat Project

Chicago Afrobeat Project

Rating: ★★★

Some years ago a collective of local musicians came together in a series of weekly jam sessions in a West...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2017

Review of Freedom to Roam The Rhythms of Migration

Freedom to Roam The Rhythms of Migration

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Goatskin Records

Rating: ★★★★

What are ‘the rhythms of migration’ – are they natural, forced, seasonal? And how do you evoke or embody them...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Innamorata

Innamorata

Andrea Terrano

Atlantic Jaxx

Rating: ★★★

The accompanying press release suggests this is ‘a perfect companion for driving around the Ibizan hills,’ and tunes such as...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: March/2017

Review of Tricota

Tricota

Otros Aires

Galileo

Rating: ★

Electronic tango is in a decadent but decisive phase. As the fad falls away, a few bands have managed to...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Blue Raag

Blue Raag

Samasa

Pan Records

Rating: ★★★★

A musical melting-pot, filtering Indian and Indonesian idioms, scales and off-kilter time signatures through blues-laced jazz, Blue Raag is the...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2020

Review of Imarhan

Imarhan

Imarhan

Top of the World

City Slang

Rating: ★★★★

Another offshoot from the mighty Tinariwen tree, the five-piece known as Imarhan (Tamashek for ‘The Ones I Care About’) represent...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2016

Review of Mozart of the Banjo: The Joe Morley Project

Mozart of the Banjo: The Joe Morley Project

Aaron Jonah Lewis

The Old-Time Tiki Parlour

Rating: ★★★★

Aaron Jonah Lewis' 24-song tribute to the legendary British banjo player and composer Joe Morley (1867-1937) is a fascinating dive...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020

Review of Essence of Raga Tala

Essence of Raga Tala

Kuljit Bhamra

Top of the World

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

Here tabla maestro Kuljit Bhamra has put together a rather eclectic but very enjoyable selection of tracks, many which he...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2020

Review of N’Djila Wa Mudujimu

N’Djila Wa Mudujimu

Lady Aicha & Pisco Crane''s Original Fulu Miziki Band of Kinshasa

Nyege Nyege Tapes

Rating: ★★★★

This is the DIY eco-punk essence, Congo-style. Everything about Fulu Miziki has been repurposed from material rescued from the junkpile,...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: December/2022

Review of Artybonito

Artybonito

Azueï

Azueï

Rating: ★★★★

The Azueï Movement is a collective of artists spanning the shared island of Hispaniola, home to Haïti and the Dominican...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: March/2022

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