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Review of Three Cane Whale

Three Cane Whale

Three Cane Whale

Idyllic Records

Rating: ★★★

This debut from multi¬instrumentalist trio Three Cane Whale is a warming cinematic landscape of music vignettes, recorded in a Bristol...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: March/2012

Review of State of Mind

State of Mind

Zion Train

Universal Egg

Rating: ★★★

Despite a career spanning two decades and counting, Zion Train show no signs of slowing down. Emerging out of the...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of The Rough Guide to Fado

The Rough Guide to Fado

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★

Following the success of the first Rough Guide fado compilation album, some eight years later we now have a welcome...

Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: June/2012

Review of Tin Can Trust

Tin Can Trust

Los Lobos

Top of the World

Proper PRPCD065

Rating: ★★★★

Arising out of east Los Angeles, Los Lobos first came together to play Mexican corridos (narrative ballads sung in Spanish),...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2010

Review of The Havana Suite

The Havana Suite

Ahmed Dickinson & Trio Mestizo

Cubafilin Records

Rating: ★★★

With the current vogue for sharp-edged Cuban sounds – funky timba, relentless reggaeton, heavy duty salsa dura – showing no...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of The Sound Braka

The Sound Braka

Stracho Temelkovski

MDC

Rating: ★★★★

Multi-instrumentalist and composer, Temelkovski, has recently brought out his first album, a captivating suite of soulful melodies, intoxicating rhythms and...

Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: December/2021

Review of Aratan n Azawad

Aratan n Azawad

Terakaft

Top of the World

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

No surprise that Terakaft – the name means ‘caravan’ in Tamasheq – stayed pretty close to the sound of the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2011

Review of Anatolian Sun

Anatolian Sun

Moğollar

Night Dreamer

Rating: ★★★★

Moğollar (the Mongols) were the original Anatolian rockers and coiners of the term ‘Anatolian pop.’ Back in the late 60s...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: March/2021

Review of Love and Death

Love and Death

Ebo Taylor

Strut Records

Rating: ★★★

This is the first ever internationally released studio album from Ebo Taylor, now 74 and one of the legends of...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of BanningsviNe

BanningsviNe

Flammé Kapaya

Buda Music

Rating: ★★★★

Flammé Kapaya will be a new name to many. But he spent a decade backing the Congolese singer Werrason in...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2013

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