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Review of Vida-Código

Vida-Código

Tiganá Santana

Ajabu!

Rating: ★★★

For Vida-Código -his fourth album and his third on the Swedish Ajabu! label – Tiganá Santana presents very little of...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2020

Review of Vesselil

Vesselil

Vesselil

GO’ Danish Folk Music

Rating: ★★★★

Vesselil are a female string trio from Denmark playing Nordic folk music and this is their eponymous debut. Their name...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2019

Review of One People One World

One People One World

Femi Kuti

Knitting Factory

Rating: ★★★

Around the same time as Seun Kuti's excellent new album Black Times, elder brother Femi has also returned to the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2018

Review of Aguidavi do Jêje

Aguidavi do Jêje

Aguidavi do Jêje

Top of the World

Rocinante

Rating: ★★★★

Slaves from present-day Nigeria, Benin and Togo brought Candomblé to Bahia (Brazil) where it thrived, developing into Afro-Brazilian ceremonies performed...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: May/2024

Review of Yn Fyw

Yn Fyw

Y Glerorfa

Live Sain SCD2607

Rating: ★★★

This is a heart-warming disc. It's the recording of a performance in Caernarfon – the heart of Welsh Wales –...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2010

Review of Otherness

Otherness

AO Music

Abbeywood Records

Rating: ★★★

Imagine yourself watching a performance where musicians perform a kaleidoscope celebrating world traditions, including multi-lingual voices, sometimes mysteriously inserting newly...

Reviewed by James Rorison in issue: May/2024

Review of Remember

Remember

Kamatana

EchoLocation World Music

Rating: ★★★

This is a style of music that has received little exposure outside of the Nyanza province in western Kenya. It...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Siftorde

Siftorde

Tidiane Thiam

Sahel Sounds

Rating: ★★★

Tidiane Thiam is a photographer, visual artist and guitarist from Podor, the dusty home town of Baaba Maal in northern...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Mon Péi

Mon Péi

Maloya Jazz Xperianz

Babani Records

Rating: ★★★

After releasing their first physical album at the end of last year, the quintet from La Réunion have now gone...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: February/March/2025

Review of Yiddish Journey: The Music of Lenka Lichtenberg

Yiddish Journey: The Music of Lenka Lichtenberg

Lenka Lichtenberg

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

For better or worse, Jewish song often contends with a dizzying array of demands, from dealing with painful memory to...

Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: May/2016

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