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Review of The Rough Guide to Undiscovered World

The Rough Guide to Undiscovered World

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

The Rough Guide to Un dis cove red World is a showcase compilation. It is the CD companion to record...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of Viva Tu

Viva Tu

Manu Chao

Because Music

Rating: ★★★★★

It has been 17 years since Manu Chao’s last studio album, 2007’s La Radiolina – but then he has never...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2024

Review of World Routes: On The Road

World Routes: On The Road

Various Artists

Top of the World

Nascente (To be released January 16 2012)

Rating: ★★★★

World Routes (currently broadcast on Sunday evenings) is BBC Radio 3’s flagship world music programme. And to my knowledge, there...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of Our Latin Thing

Our Latin Thing

Fania All-Stars

Strut/Fania

Rating: ★★★★★

This special edition package celebrates the 40th anniversary of a very special night. On Thursday August 26 1971, the stellar...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of Giorgos Katsaros

Giorgos Katsaros

Giorgos Katsaros

Mississippi Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This is both a fabulous historical document and a musical treat from the rebetika heyday of Greek émigrés to the...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: January/2025

Review of Our Routes

Our Routes

Gypsy Hill

Batov Records

Rating: ★★

It 's somewhat quaint in late 2014 to get a new album that faithfully treads the Balkan beats formula popular...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Cold Blows the Wind

Cold Blows the Wind

Granny’s Attic

Grimdon Records

Rating: ★★★★

The assured trio of Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne on melodeon, concertina and vocals, singer and guitarist George Sansome and violinist Lewis Wood...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/2025

Review of Silent Voices

Silent Voices

Ayla Schafer

Nixi Music

Rating: ★★★

Singer-songwriter Ayla Schafer plays spellbinding folk music infused with Latin mystique. Her captivating new album carries a profound message of...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: March/2021

Review of Gipsy Burek Orkestar

Gipsy Burek Orkestar

Gipsy Burek Orkestar

Innacor

Rating: ★★★

Gipsy Burek Orkestar made a good impression at WOMEX 2013. They describe themselves as ‘blending the exuberant drive of a...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2014

Review of Tatavla

Tatavla

Trio Tatavla

Lejazzetal

Rating: ★★★★

Tatavla was a neighbourhood in Istanbul where the Greek-speaking community once performed a great deal of music, especially that of...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2018

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