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Review of Yalla Yalla!

Yalla Yalla!

Sultans of String

McKhool Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Rumba flamenco rhythms may be at the base of this endearing instru¬mental recording by Toronto-based Sultans of String, but you’ll...

Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Isle of Magic

Isle of Magic

Mop Mop

Agogo Records

Rating: ★★★★

Who are Mop Mop? It appears they are a multi-instrumental Italian seven-piece who have a passion for African diaspora music...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2013

Review of Ondatropica

Ondatropica

Ondatropica

Top of the World

Soundway Records

Rating: ★★★★

No one does Colombia with as much attention to detail as Soundway Records. Their latest two-CD release, Ondatrópica, is a...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of Pour Me A Grog: The Funaná Revolt in 1990s Cabo Verde

Pour Me A Grog: The Funaná Revolt in 1990s Cabo Verde

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ostinato Records

Rating: ★★★★

Anyone who has come across Madonna's latest album may have noticed the singer's recent love affair with Cape Verdean music....

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of The Vienna Tapes

The Vienna Tapes

Dunkelbunt

Dunkelbunt Records

Rating: ★★★

In 2001 Ulf Lindemann (aka Dunkelbunt) moved from Hamburg to Vienna. That was his first journey eastward - his first...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: May/2020

Review of All Dressed in Yellow

All Dressed in Yellow

Fiddlers’ Bid

Hairst Blinks Music HBM001

Rating: ★★★★

The cover of All Dressed in Yellow features a photo of a man with his arm outstretched holding, horizontal, in...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2010

Review of Scatter the Light

Scatter the Light

Eileen Ivers

Musical Bridge Records

Rating: ★★★

Scatter the Light, the latest album by Grammy-winning violin virtuoso Eileen Ivers, is jam-packed with tracks showcasing the Irish-American's nonpareil...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2020

Review of Discover Music From Brazil

Discover Music From Brazil

VARIOUS ARTISTS

ARC Music

Rating: ★★

There's plenty of music on this 18-track compilation, but surely only the entirely uninitiated could regard much of it as...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2016

Review of The God Who Devastates Also Cures

The God Who Devastates Also Cures

Lucas Santtana

Top of the World

Mais Um Discos

Rating: ★★★★

On each of Lucas Santtana's previous five albums there was a concept that the Brazilian singer-songwriter set himself, a way...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of Haoloto

Haoloto

Te Vaka

Warm Earth WMCD1008

Rating: ★★★★

With half-Tokelauan, half-Tuvaluan bloodlines, Te Vaka headman Opetaia Foa’i was born in Samoa, moved to New Zealand as a child,...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2010

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