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Review of Tango de Ruptura

Tango de Ruptura

Astillero

De Puerto 324853411-3

Rating: ★★★

Buenos Aires is full of talented youn g musicians and in recent years, on the back of a rising wave...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2010

Review of The Outlander

The Outlander

Jim Moray

Managed Decline

Rating: ★★★★

On his first album, Sweet England, Jim Moray included ‘The Seeds of Love’, the first folk song Cecil Sharp collected....

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2019

Review of You Are Free

You Are Free

Graeme Armstrong

Graeme Armstrong Records

Rating: ★★★★

Perhaps best known as one third of the mighty Talisk, Graeme Armstrong’s debut solo album presents the singer-songwriter as a...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2022

Review of Titina Canta B Leza

Titina Canta B Leza

Titina

Astral Music/Sterns

Rating: ★★★★

With reissues of long-deleted Cape Verdean albums being about as rare as Cape Verdean cloud bursts, Astral Music in conjunction...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of Can You Feel It?

Can You Feel It?

The Drive

We Are Busy Bodies

Rating: ★★★

Last year the excellent Canadian crate-digging label We Are Busy Bodies reissued Armitage Road, a 1970 album by South African...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2021

Review of Nykomlingen

Nykomlingen

Erlend Viken Trio

Heilo Records

Rating: ★★★★

This CD contains so much that is unexpected and surprising. It feels as though the band is on a journey...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2017

Review of The Nile Project: Aswan

The Nile Project: Aswan

Various Artists

Top of the World

The Nile Project

Rating: ★★★★

In January earlier this year 18 musicians from five countries along the Nile came together in an unprecedented collaboration. This...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of Music of Central Asia Vol Seven: In the Shrine of the Heart

Music of Central Asia Vol Seven: In the Shrine of the Heart

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD40526

Rating: ★★★

With its seventh volume, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture series focuses for the first time on Uzbekistan and traditional...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2010

Review of Salt for Svanetia

Salt for Svanetia

Moishe's Bagel

Moishe''s Bagel

Rating: ★★★

This arty offering from the stupendous Moishe's Bagel, known for their intelligent reworkings of the traditional klezmer and Balkan canons,...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of Ambolley

Ambolley

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★★

For many of us, our first introduction to the Ghanaian singer and bandleader Gyedu-Blay Ambolley was when Soundway included a...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2019

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