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Review of Shimmering Lights: Hanukkah Songs

Shimmering Lights: Hanukkah Songs

Yale Strom's Broken Consort

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

Shimmering Lights: is one of those albums that really takes you by surprise. Seeing Hanukkah Songs in the title, as...

Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: December/2018

Review of Sakai Ishinage Odori

Sakai Ishinage Odori

The Sakai Ishinage Odori Preservation Society

em records

Rating: ★★★★

This recording, or rather pair of recordings (one from 1982 and one from 2017), is the second release in an...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: April/2019

Review of Seven Continents

Seven Continents

Blue Lotus

Stunt Records

Rating: ★★★

You would be forgiven for feeling a little nonplussed by the title of this Danish trio's second album. The first...

Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: March/2015

Review of Myriad Road

Myriad Road

Natacha Atlas

Decca

Rating: ★★★

The jazz album is often the second-last refuge of a career on the slide (reggae generally being the final resort...

Reviewed by David Hutcheon in issue: June/2016

Review of Samarpan

Samarpan

Manish Pingle

Ramble Records

Rating: ★★★★

Introduced to Indian classical music by Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and the gloriously experimental Debashish Bhattachrya, the...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022

Review of Mulatu Steps Ahead

Mulatu Steps Ahead

Mulatu Astatke

Strut Records STRUT056CD

Rating: ★★★★

An influential star of the golden age of Ethiopian popular music, Mulatu Astatke was also the first African student at...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2010

Review of Fatteliku: Live in Athens

Fatteliku: Live in Athens

Youssou N’Dour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar

Real World

Rating: ★★★★

In 1987, when it looked as though global sounds, African music in particular, would take a major share of the...

Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: November/2015

Review of Nobody Knows You

Nobody Knows You

Steep Canyon Rangers

Rounder

Rating: ★★★

One thing that quickly becomes apparent about the Steep Canyon Rangers is that they don’t quite have the degree of...

Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: October/2012

Review of La Vérité

La Vérité

Fode Baro

Lusafrica

Rating: ★★★

Fode Baro is from Guinea, of Fulani-Mande descent, but he is not from a griot family. His music is a...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of Tradisyon

Tradisyon

Wesli

Cumbancha

Rating: ★★★★

This is a collection of traditional Haitian songs modernised with skill and sensitivity by Montréal-based singer and multi-intrumentalist, Wesli. It’s...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: January/February/2023

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