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Review of Pupillo

Pupillo

Pupillo

Amor in Sound

Rating: ★★★★★★★

Pupillo first came to my attention as a percussionist in Nação Zumbi, playing alongside Chico Science when he was still...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: May/2026

Review of Eusebio

Eusebio

Giulia y Los Tellarini

Maik Maier CDMM01

Rating: ★

Two years ago the Italian singer Giulia Tellarini and her chums were among the multi-national swarms of tourists strumming guitars...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2010

Review of Three Voices

Three Voices

Jitka Šuranska, Irén Lovász & Michal Elia Kamal

Indies

Rating: ★★

This album was recorded live at the wonderful-sounding Folk Holidays Festival in the Czech Republic, a place for sharing music...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of Get Out While You Can

Get Out While You Can

Dan Sultan

Independent/MGM SUL002

Rating: ★★★★

Aside from the singing phenomenon Gurrumul, Australia’s hottest indigenous musician these days is Dan Sultan. With an Irish father and...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: July/2010

Review of Indigenous Matter: Music from Africa & the Americas

Indigenous Matter: Music from Africa & the Americas

VARIOUS ARTISTS

In the Woods Records INWOOD002

Rating: ★★★★

Musician-producer, Chris Warwick took advantage of his travels around the Americas and West Africa in the 80s, to record music...

Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia

Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia

Bokan Stanković

WMAS Records

Rating: ★★★

Bagpipes are not the first instrument that come to mind when you think of Serbian music. And it's a dwindling...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020

Review of Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia

Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia

Bokan Stanković

WMAS Records

Rating: ★★★

Bagpipes are not the first instrument that come to mind when you think of Serbian music. And it's a dwindling...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020

Review of Beat Down Babylon

Beat Down Babylon

Junior Byles

Doctor Bird

Rating: ★★★★★

Kerrie ‘Junior’ Byles was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1948 and developed into one of reggae’s foremost voices, initially as...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2020

Review of Memories and Moments

Memories and Moments

Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott

Full Skies

Rating: ★★★★

Listening to Memories and Moments, Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott’s much-anticipated follow-up to last year’s live album, We’re Usually a...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Review of A Country’s Soul: 1945-1957

A Country’s Soul: 1945-1957

Amalia Rodrigues

Frémeaux & Associés (2 CDs,)

Rating: ★★★★

The great, groundbreaking monarch of Portuguese fado hasn’t really been given her due in » terms of disc space in...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: June/2013

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