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Review of Anclao en Paris

Anclao en Paris

Cuarteto Cedrón

Le Chant du Monde

Rating: ★★★

Juan ‘Tata’ Cedrón has been making folk and tango music with one quartet or another since 1964 and has released...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2013

Review of Vinyl Box Set #4

Vinyl Box Set #4

Fela Kuti

Knitting Factory Records

Rating: ★★★

While I wish I was reporting to you on the quality packaging and superb sound this vinyl box-set contains, being...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2018

Review of Water of Tyne

Water of Tyne

Kathryn Tickell & Friends

Magnetic North East

Rating: ★★★

Magnetic North East is a new organisation dedicated to promoting the music, culture, art and heritage – the identity, then...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of World Defeats the Grandfathers: Swinging Swahili Rumba 1982-1986

World Defeats the Grandfathers: Swinging Swahili Rumba 1982-1986

Issa Juma & the Super Wanyika Stars

Top of the World

Sterns Music STCD3050

Rating: ★★★★★

This is another in a series of authoritative collections of golden-age rumba issued by Sterns. Whilst their recent anthologies have...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2010

Review of Dacw’r Tannau

Dacw’r Tannau

Chris Jones

Gwymon Records

Rating: ★★★

Chris Jones started out singing unaccompanied traditional Welsh songs more than 20 years ago. He began picking up songs from...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of The Whiting’s on the Wall

The Whiting’s on the Wall

Belshazzar’s Feast

Unearthed

Rating: ★★★★★

Paul Sartin and Paul Hutchinson just can’t help themselves. If ever one tune reminds them of another - for even...

Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: June/2014

Review of The Rough Guide to the Music of Mali

The Rough Guide to the Music of Mali

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★★

So, just how does one represent a musical powerhouse of a nation such as Mali in just one CD? Well,...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2014

Review of Yene Mircha

Yene Mircha

Hailu Mergia

Awesome Tapes from Africa

Rating: ★

After Awesome Tapes from Africa reissued three of his old tapes to wide acclaim, Ethiopian keys player Hailu Mergia –...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2020

Review of Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia

Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia

Bokan Stanković

WMAS Records

Rating: ★★★

Bagpipes are not the first instrument that come to mind when you think of Serbian music. And it's a dwindling...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020

Review of Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia

Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia

Bokan Stanković

WMAS Records

Rating: ★★★

Bagpipes are not the first instrument that come to mind when you think of Serbian music. And it's a dwindling...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020

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