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Review of Rumbamazigha

Rumbamazigha

Rumbamazigha

Taller de Musics

Rating: ★★★

Seven musicians gather to create a fusion of Catalan and Amazigh music. Barcelona record label Taller de Musics announces that...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2011

Review of Feedback Madagascar

Feedback Madagascar

VARIOUS ARTISTS

ARC Music

Rating: ★★

Madagascar's status as a biodiversity hotspot under threat is well known, so this compilation – the proceeds of which will...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of OO MP3

OO MP3

DJ Kainga

1000Hz Records

Rating: ★★★

Polish label 1000HZ have spent the last few years quietly putting out records of incredibly interesting music from Malawi, and...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2022

Review of Le Monde Moderne

Le Monde Moderne

Studio Shap Shap

Top of the World

Studio Shap Shap

Rating: ★★★★

Welcome to volume two of a mesmeric voyage into the very bowels of the capital of Niger, Niamey, and beyond....

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: May/2023

Review of Yene Alem

Yene Alem

Etenesh Wassie & Mathieu Sourisseau

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

The collaboration between Ethiopian singer Etenesh Wassie and the French bass guitarist Mathieu Sourisseau has already yielded one album back...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2018

Review of Hidari Ude No Yume

Hidari Ude No Yume

Ryuichi Sakamoto

We Want Sounds

Rating: ★★★

While most famous around the world as a member of the groundbreaking group Yellow Magic Orchestra, Ryuichi Sakamoto has been...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: January/2021

Review of Atlantic Beat: Mad’in Portugal

Atlantic Beat: Mad’in Portugal

OqueStrada

Jaro Music

Rating: ★★★

There is a variety of ways of ordering a coffee in Portugal: OqueStrada tells us all about it in ‘Café...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Reka

Reka

Muha

Muha

Rating: ★★★

Based in Nottingham, with a flavour of the Russian bardic singer-songwriters, a leavening of Gypsy jazz elements and some...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Jag Changa

Jag Changa

Raghu Dixit

Top of the World

Wandering Minstrel Records

Rating: ★★★★

When the folk-rocker from Mysore, Raghu Dixit, launched himself on an unsuspecting world in 2008, he didn’t take no for...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Hell Yeah!

Hell Yeah!

Cajun Roosters

Whoopee Records

Rating: ★★★

This is some straight-up knee-slapping, line-dancing, hat-tippin’, hoedown-swinging, Bayou-swimmin’ stuff! If that's not your thing, you’re probably not going to...

Reviewed by Mike Fleck in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

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