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Review of The Complete Bowdoin College Concert 1960

The Complete Bowdoin College Concert 1960

Pete Seeger

Smithsonian Folkways

Rating: ★★★★★

This album chronicles the only existing complete concert performance by the inestimably important American folk musician during the period in...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of Lo Mau d'Amor

Lo Mau d'Amor

Trobairitz d'Oc

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

Singers Paola Lombardo and Valeria Benigni are vocalists with distinctively different qualities: the former retaining her jazz upbringing, the latter...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: June/2011

Review of Vel

Vel

Susheela Raman

Outerindia

Rating: ★★★

The fifth album from the British-Asian singer and 2001 Mercury Music prize nominee finds her digging deeper than ever before...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Tamala

Tamala

Bao Sissoko, Mola Sylla & Wouter Vandenabeele

Muziekpublique

Rating: ★★★

The title translates as ‘Travellers,’ an apt name for an album that reveals an intriguing trio from very different musical...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Review of Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends

Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends

Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends

Universal Island Records 2736888

Rating: ★★

For years the Fisherman’s Friends have entertained their neighbours, friends and visitors with sea shanties, Cornish songs, hymns and banter...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2010

Review of Desfado

Desfado

Ana Moura

Top of the World

Universal

Rating: ★★★★

By the time Ana Moura released her fourth album in 2009, Leva-me aos Fados, she had gone as far as...

Reviewed by Gonfalo Frota in issue: June/2013

Review of In a Lifetime

In a Lifetime

Clannad

BMG 5 CDs

Rating: ★★★

Tickets are on sale for Clannad's farewell tour, and to go with it, various weights of a Best Of anthology,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020

Review of Mounqaliba

Mounqaliba

Natacha Atlas

World Village WVF479048

Rating: ★★★

Natacha Atlas’ last album Ana Hina [reviewed in #52] was an extremely well judged step away from the Middle Eastern...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: October/2010

Review of Maisha Ni Matamu

Maisha Ni Matamu

Samba Mapangala & Orchestra Virunga

Virunga Records

Rating: ★★★★

Although originating from the Congo in Central Africa, the singer Samba Mapangala is better known amongst Swahili-speaking East African fans...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2011

Review of Reinas del Matute

Reinas del Matute

Las Migas

Nuevos Medios

Rating: ★★★★

Las Migas are a rare find: a group of four Barcelona-based women from Catalonia, Andalusia, France and Germany, creating stunningly...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

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