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Full Attack Band

Top of the World

Full Attack Band

Rating: ★★★★

The pace is frenetic from the off, but there's something more in the mix than just the usual racing rhythm...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: May/2016

Review of Anclao en Paris

Anclao en Paris

Cuarteto Cedrón

Le Chant du Monde

Rating: ★★★

Juan ‘Tata’ Cedrón has been making folk and tango music with one quartet or another since 1964 and has released...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2013

Review of Herself and Myself

Herself and Myself

Thomas McCarthy

Tin Folk Music

Rating: ★★★

Thomas McCarthy is an Irish Traveller who, when he was a child, lived on a site beneath the Westway, the...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Vinyl Box Set #4

Vinyl Box Set #4

Fela Kuti

Knitting Factory Records

Rating: ★★★

While I wish I was reporting to you on the quality packaging and superb sound this vinyl box-set contains, being...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2018

Review of Water of Tyne

Water of Tyne

Kathryn Tickell & Friends

Magnetic North East

Rating: ★★★

Magnetic North East is a new organisation dedicated to promoting the music, culture, art and heritage – the identity, then...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of World Defeats the Grandfathers: Swinging Swahili Rumba 1982-1986

World Defeats the Grandfathers: Swinging Swahili Rumba 1982-1986

Issa Juma & the Super Wanyika Stars

Top of the World

Sterns Music STCD3050

Rating: ★★★★★

This is another in a series of authoritative collections of golden-age rumba issued by Sterns. Whilst their recent anthologies have...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2010

Review of Dacw’r Tannau

Dacw’r Tannau

Chris Jones

Gwymon Records

Rating: ★★★

Chris Jones started out singing unaccompanied traditional Welsh songs more than 20 years ago. He began picking up songs from...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of The Whiting’s on the Wall

The Whiting’s on the Wall

Belshazzar’s Feast

Unearthed

Rating: ★★★★★

Paul Sartin and Paul Hutchinson just can’t help themselves. If ever one tune reminds them of another - for even...

Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: June/2014

Review of The Rough Guide to the Music of Mali

The Rough Guide to the Music of Mali

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★★

So, just how does one represent a musical powerhouse of a nation such as Mali in just one CD? Well,...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2014

Review of Yene Mircha

Yene Mircha

Hailu Mergia

Awesome Tapes from Africa

Rating: ★

After Awesome Tapes from Africa reissued three of his old tapes to wide acclaim, Ethiopian keys player Hailu Mergia –...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2020

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