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Review of Curiche

Curiche

Newen Afrobeat

Newen Afrobeat

Rating: ★★★

In the past ten years Afrobeat has spread across Latin America, new disciples discovering the genre through the internet and...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2020

Review of Face to Face

Face to Face

Vusi Mahlasela, Norman Zulu & Jive Connection

Strut Records

Rating: ★★★★

The velvet-voiced Sotho folk singer Vusi Mahlasela met the Swedish jazz/soul collective Jive Connection in the early 1990s in an...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2023

Review of Tuulispää

Tuulispää

Karuna

KUU Records

Rating: ★★★★

Esko Järvela has an enviable musical pedigree. Growing up in Kaustinen, the home of Finnish folk music, he was immersed...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2017

Review of Sonic Migration

Sonic Migration

Subsonic Trio

Bafe''s Factory

Rating: ★★★

The Subsonic Trio brings together musicians from Brazil, Finland and Australia – no longer such a surprise in our globalised...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2017

Review of Botyiaki Ntembe

Botyiaki Ntembe

Wendo Kolosoy

IglooMondo

Rating: ★★★★

This two-CD package reissues two albums that book-ended the latter part of the veteran Congolese troubadour’s musical career. Antoine Wendo...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of Kora Flamenca

Kora Flamenca

Zal Sissokho

Analekta

Rating: ★★

This album, by Montréal-based Senegalese kora player Zal Sissokho, is the fruit of the Centre des Musiciens du Monde, a...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: May/2021

Review of Marcha!

Marcha!

Lo Cor de la Plana

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

This is the third album from the male voice choir from the quartier of La Plaine in Marseille, who go...

Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of La Onda Vampi

La Onda Vampi

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★★

Vampisoul really knows how to mash it up. The Spanish label, celebrating a decade this year, has to be one...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: June/2012

Review of Wednesday

Wednesday

Kayaan

Finalbrain/Christian Mueller

Rating: ★★

The cover artwork of this collaborative project very helpfully pigeonholes it as ‘Arabic jazz-rap’. It doesn't deceive. The formula pits...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2011

Review of The Bird Who Sings Freedom

The Bird Who Sings Freedom

Georgia Lewis

RootBeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Though this is the debut album from Wiltshire folk singer Georgia Lewis, she has been performing as a trio with...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2017

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