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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 Broken Down Gentlemen

Broken Down Gentlemen

Faustus

Navigator Records

Rating: ★★★★

Faustus was the man with the magic touch, though it came at the price of damnation. Faustus the band share...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2013

Review of Manghoua Foura

Manghoua Foura

Diénéba Seek

Sterns

Rating: ★★★★

The Wassoulou region of southern Mali has an incredible record for producing great female singers. They were celebrated with Sterns’...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2012

Review of Kinshasa Succursale

Kinshasa Succursale

Baloji

Top of the World

Crammed Discs

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded in 2008, the story of Kinshasa Succursale has the trappings of a film script. Congolese-Belgian rapper-cum-dandy Baloji had turned...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of Chaal Baby

Chaal Baby

Red Baraat

Sinj Records SR0110

Rating: ★★★

Hailing from überchic Brooklyn in the melting pot of New York City, Red Baraat have a studied multi-ethnic cool reminiscent...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2010

Review of Acadian All Star Special

Acadian All Star Special

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Bear Family

Rating: ★★★★

What a beautifully packaged project this is: a large box housing three CDs and a hardback book full of rare...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2012

Review of Salto Mortal

Salto Mortal

Dolores Solá

Ojo Records

Rating: ★★★★

The vocal half of the singer-songwriting duo that fronts enduring Argentinian band La Chicana, Dolores Solá steps away here from...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Without Words

Without Words

Doug Cox

Black Hen Music BHCD0056

Rating: ★★★

A genial expert, Doug Cox wears his considerable fingerpicking and slide-guitar talents lightly. His lifelong love of the blues is...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2010

Review of Who Say I Tire

Who Say I Tire

Segun Bucknor

Vampisoul VAMPI CD 123

Rating: ★★★

As a Nigerian musician, composer and bandleader who reached his peak in the early 70s, Segun Bucknor has inevitably been...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2010

Review of Daybreak

Daybreak

Sierra Hull

Rounder

Rating: ★★★★

Between Sarah Jarosz and Sierra Hull, there seems to be a surfeit of teenaged mandolin-strumming-singer-songwriter prodigies on the acoustic/bluegrass scene...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

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