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Review of The New Adventures of Jassi Sidhu

The New Adventures of Jassi Sidhu

Jassi Sidhu

Moviebox

Rating: ★★★

This is a re-release of Sidhu's third solo album, originally released in 2008. He came to fame as part of...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2011

Review of Bourdon

Bourdon

Topette!!

Topette!!

Rating: ★★★★

Bourdon is French for ‘Bumblebee,’ and Topette!!’s exhilarating and intriguing new album begins with the buzz of a dumbledore. This...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2022

Review of East North

East North

Tim Dorofeyev’s Project

Leo Records

Rating: ★★★

There has always been an eclectic tinge, and a flair for the complex and wildly virtuosic in Russian jazz. This...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of Sleep With One Eye Open

Sleep With One Eye Open

Chris Thile & Michael Daves

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

One wag once described bluegrass music as ‘bebop for the harmonically challenged.’ If there's any truth to this rather snooty...

Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: July/2011

Review of Chaiyya Chaiyya

Chaiyya Chaiyya

Bollywood Brass Band feat Rafaqat Ali Khan

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

This fourth outing by the Bollywood Brass Band – a British, multicultural celebration of the Bollywood sound – sees two...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2011

Review of Como Lo Ves

Como Lo Ves

Lariba

Ventilador Music CDA066

Rating: ★★★

With their selection box of various Latin styles, Lariba are another border-erasing product of music’s global village. The eight-piece –...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Havili

Havili

Te Vaka

Warm Earth

Rating: ★★★

The seventh album from veteran Pan¬Pacific group Te Vaka treads a similar path to their previous recordings – and that’s...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of Unplugged On Strawberry Hill

Unplugged On Strawberry Hill

Toots & The Maytals

Metropolis

Rating: ★★★★

For anyone who considers Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert to be as valuable a contribution to soul music as he is to...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2012

Review of My Dusty Road

My Dusty Road

Woody Guthrie

Rounder Records CDROUN11622

Rating: ★★★★

In these digital days of iTunes and Spotify, in which the disc and the very notion of music as a...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Siyalapha

Siyalapha

Laliboi & Spoek Mathambo

Top of the World

Teka Music

Rating: ★★★★

While this is only Laliboi's second record under his own name, the South African multi-instrumentalist and rapper is by no...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: August/September/2023

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