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Review of Captain Rugged

Captain Rugged

Keziah Jones

Because Music

Rating: ★★

Captain Rugged purports to be the sound of a man on a mission, with Nigerian Afro-rock musician Keziah Jones adopting...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2014

Review of Rough Guide to Salsa Dance

Rough Guide to Salsa Dance

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network RGNET1239CD

Rating: ★★★

Just how much juice is there left to squeeze from the salsa market? Tons, if the recent assembly line of...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2010

Review of Dinas

Dinas

Calan

Sain Records

Rating: ★★★

After performing an impressive showcase when the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards was hosted in Cardiff this April, this spirited...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2015

Review of Delhi to Damascus

Delhi to Damascus

Sandeep Das

Top of the World

In A Circle

Rating: ★★★★

This album is predicated on the idea that by changing just a few elements of a musical style or tradition...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2020

Review of Beat Down Babylon

Beat Down Babylon

Junior Byles

Doctor Bird

Rating: ★★★★★

Kerrie ‘Junior’ Byles was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1948 and developed into one of reggae’s foremost voices, initially as...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2020

Review of An Den Dey Made Tae

An Den Dey Made Tae

Ross & Ryan Couper

Couper Records

Rating: ★★★

Growing up as part of a famous Shetland musical family, Ross Couper, fiddle player with the Peatbog Faeries, and his...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: May/2021

Review of MARÉ

MARÉ

MARÉ

Sons Vadios

Rating: ★★★

Fishermen and their special connection to the sea have always had a pull on literature and music. Maybe it's because...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2024

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

Review of Direct-to-Disc

Direct-to-Disc

Marcelo D2 & SambaDrive

Night Dreamer

Rating: ★★★

Marcelo Peixoto became known through his work with 90s rap-rock band Planet Hemp and their ceaseless cries for the legalisation...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: January/2025

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