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Review of Millions of Us

Millions of Us

BCUC

Top of the World

On the Corner Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Ten tracks into Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness’ (BCUC) Millions of Us, there's a message from Jovi Nkosi to producer Sam...

Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: July/2023

Review of Brave New World

Brave New World

Marcus Gad Meets Tamal

Easy Star/Baco/High Records

Rating: ★★★

Reggae has long played a pivotal role in Pacific music, but unlike its Jamaican roots counterpart, the more derivative Oceanic...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2022

Review of Gamelan of Java, Volume IV: Puspa Warna

Gamelan of Java, Volume IV: Puspa Warna

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Lyrichord

Rating: ★★★

Lyrichord's latest two discs highlight Javanese gamelan music's diversity. On Puspa Warna, musicians from central Java perform some of the...

Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: June/2011

Review of Greek Rhapsody: Instrumental Music from Greece, 1905-1956

Greek Rhapsody: Instrumental Music from Greece, 1905-1956

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Dust-to-Digital (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★★★

Greek Rhapsody is an organic, if indirect, extension of a 2005 collaboration between British musician and archivist Tony Klein and...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2013

Review of Antibalas

Antibalas

Antibalas

Daptone

Rating: ★★★★

Founded in 1997 in Brooklyn, Antibalas have become one of the US-based Afro¬beat icons and their latest self-titled album proves...

Reviewed by Alex Petropoulos in issue: October/2012

Review of Baba Toulenga

Baba Toulenga

Diom De Kossa

Talik

Rating: ★★★★

I'd wager that very few musicians under scrutiny in these pages, in this issue or any other, have graced the...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2011

Review of Musicatelama

Musicatelama

Mose Fan Fan

LAA Records

Rating: ★★★★

Guitarist, composer and occasional singer Mose Fan Fan is one of the few survivors of Congo’s Orchestre OK Jazz to...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of Balkan Fever London – Mind the Brass

Balkan Fever London – Mind the Brass

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Green Queen Music 0205557GQM

Rating: ★★★★

Phis new compilation of UK bands is the latest in a long line of localised Gypsy or Balkan scenes sprouting...

Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: October/2010

Review of Carnatic Connection

Carnatic Connection

Bollywood Brass Band featuring Jyotsna Srikanth

Top of the World

Bollywood Brass Band

Rating: ★★★★

The Bollywood Brass Band's latest album is yet another outstanding tour de force. With the help of Jyotsna Srikanth's Karnatic...

Reviewed by Amar Dhillon in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of Transe de Papier

Transe de Papier

Lo'Jo

Top of the World

Yotanka

Rating: ★★★★★

Welcome to a world of poetry nourished by multiple musical influences from various remote corners of the planet. The latest...

Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: January/2021

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