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Review of Kalipè

Kalipè

Lee Fry Music

Lee Fry Music

Rating: ★★★

Now, more than ever, musicians don't have to leave the privacy of their homes to cut an album. They hook...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: June/2021

Review of Cirkari

Cirkari

Zingaros

ARC Music EUCD2266

Rating: ★★★

Zingaros are an Argentinian trio specialising in local interpretations of Gypsy and East European classics. Musicians in Eastern Europe have...

Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: June/2010

Review of Amadjar

Amadjar

Tinariwen

Top of the World

Wedge/PIAS

Rating: ★★★★★

Following the takeover of their homeland in northern Mali by militant Islamists in 2012, Tinariwen recorded their last two albums...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2019

Review of Sand Enigma

Sand Enigma

Land of Kush

Constellation

Rating: ★★★★

Sun Ra Arkestra colliding with Arabic tropes and urban Cairo grit, Land of Kush almost literally smashes itself onto the...

Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: March/2020

Review of Águia Não Come Mosca

Águia Não Come Mosca

Azymuth

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★★

The second album from the Brazilian funk trio Azymuth, now reissued by Mr Bongo, was originally recorded in 1977 and traverses...

Reviewed by Brian Taylor in issue: June/2019

Review of Faerie Fire Dances

Faerie Fire Dances

Marc Block

Glasspool Music

Rating: ★★★

Marc Block has been on the folk scene since the mid-1980s, a self-described ‘rootsy Radical Faerie singer of original and...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2020

Review of Ayú

Ayú

Barbatuques

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★

Making music with their bodies is ‘what really matters,’ assert this mixed-gender 15-strong collective from São Paulo. While there are...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of Sangeet

Sangeet

Sudeshna Bhattacharya & Tanmoy Bose

Losen Records

Rating: ★★★

Sudeshna Bhattacharya, who has been a lecturer in International Management and also teaches Indian classical music at the Norwegian Academy...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: April/2020

Review of True North

True North

Phillip Henry

Top of the World

Dragonfly Roots

Rating: ★★★★

Ten years ago, Phillip Henry (best known as one half of the award-winning Devon folk duo, Edgelarks, with Hannah Martin)...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2019

Review of Trouble Fête

Trouble Fête

Badi & Boddhi Satva

Batakar

Rating: ★★★

A collaboration between Belgian/African rapper Badi and producer Boddhi Satva, this politically charged record is for the disenchanted optimist. Composed...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: January/2021

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