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Review of Los Lobos del Recuerdo

Los Lobos del Recuerdo

La Chicana

Acqua Records

Rating: ★★★★

Lobos is one of those Buenos Aires province backwater towns where nothing much happens, ever. It may be an accidental...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2024

Review of Magnetismo

Magnetismo

La Yegros

Top of the World

Soundway Records

Rating: ★★★★

If ever Pedro Almodóvar wanted a new muse, he need look no further than La Yegros, the kooky queen of...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2016

Review of Tinn Tout

Tinn Tout

Danyèl Waro

Top of the World

Cobalt/Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★★

Danyèl Waro has spent the past 45 years becoming the international ambassador of maloya, the revolutionary roots music of the...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2020

Review of Festival Bell

Festival Bell

Fairport Convention

Matty Grooves

Rating: ★★★

Umpteen albums have come and gone since the original Fairport line-up started playing West Coast pop covers in 1967. As...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2011

Review of The Longshot

The Longshot

Megson

EDJ EDJ016

Rating: ★★★

Never has hard graft been so tenderly celebrated as on The Long Shot, the North¬umbrian husband-and-wife duo’s fourth album. Stu...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of The Guesthouse Sessions

The Guesthouse Sessions

Naragonia

Trad Records

Rating: ★★★

Lockdown has proved a rich creative experience for the Belgian bal folk duo, diatonic accordionists Pascale Rubens and Toon Van...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2021

Review of Miziki

Miziki

Dobet Gnahoré

Top of the World

LA Café

Rating: ★★★★★

Eight years after receiving a Grammy Award for her song ‘Palea’, the African singer-songwriter Dobet Gnahoré has released her fifth...

Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: June/2018

Review of Zembrocal Musical

Zembrocal Musical

Groove Lélé & Ernst Reijseger

Winter & Winter 9101672

Rating: ★★★★

Groove Lélé are a Creole group from the island La Réunion, located in the Indian Ocean to the east of...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Dedans le Sud de la Louisiane

Dedans le Sud de la Louisiane

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Frémeaux & Associés

Rating: ★★★★★

Oh what a gem this package is, containing a 47-minute DVD of a documentary shot in rural Louisiana in the...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of El Habitante de la Tarde Roja

El Habitante de la Tarde Roja

Juanito Makandé

Satelite K

Rating: ★★

If you don't know what tarde roja means, don't despair. The thick little booklet that comes with this release contains...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2019

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