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Review of Wide Open

Wide Open

Ross Ainslie

Great White Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Following his recent collaboration with Jarlath Henderson on their 2013 release Air-fix, Ross Ainslie delivers another fine set of mainly...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2014

Review of The Soul of Bollywood

The Soul of Bollywood

Botown

Scion Records

Rating: ★★★

Botown should be commended for endeavouring to avoid the mush of a vague world beats formula and instead focusing decisively...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2011

Review of Ferrari Safari

Ferrari Safari

Michael Baird & Pino Basile

SWP Records

Rating: ★★★★

Best known to us for his series of field recordings of African traditional music and for reissuing the 22-CD Historical...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2020

Review of Midnight Rocker

Midnight Rocker

Horace Andy

On-U Sound

Rating: ★★★

Age undoubtedly has taken some of the sweetness from Horace Andy’s voice, meaning where once he could sugar-coat his message,...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2022

Review of Amor (É Revolução)

Amor (É Revolução)

Maga Bo

Kaxambu Records

Rating: ★★★★

It’s been ten years since Maga Bo released Quilombo do Futuro, his last solo full-length, and the sound hasn’t changed...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2022

Review of Dawning

Dawning

Saffron

Tames Records

Rating: ★★★★

We all know the path of fusion is strewn with many pitfalls. What sounds good in theory often lacks coherence...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Egoli

Egoli

Africa Express

Top of the World

Africa Express Records

Rating: ★★★★★

All aboard Damon Albarn's exhilarating Africa Express again, this time bound for Johannesburg. Albarn travelled to South Africa last year...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Review of The Wedding Above in Glencree

The Wedding Above in Glencree

Daoirí Farrell

Daoirí Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Since deciding to become a musician after seeing Christy Moore perform on Irish TV and then cutting his teeth as...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2023

Review of RDS-202

RDS-202

KermesZ à l'Est

KermesZ à I''Est

Rating: ★★★★

KermesZ à l'Est are not only the wildest Balkan band in Belgium, but probably on the planet. I first encountered...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2020

Review of Babani Koné

Babani Koné

Babani Koné

World Village

Rating: ★★★

I'm always wary when I read that an artist wants to ‘broaden their audience’ and make an ‘international’ album –...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2020

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