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Review of L’amour à la folie

L’amour à la folie

Amadou & Mariam

Top of the World

Because Music

Rating: ★★★★★

You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. Perhaps in recent years, we grew guilty of rather taking for...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2025

Review of Millions of Us

Millions of Us

BCUC

Top of the World

On the Corner Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Ten tracks into Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness’ (BCUC) Millions of Us, there's a message from Jovi Nkosi to producer Sam...

Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: July/2023

Review of Comfort Food

Comfort Food

Kiran Ahluwalia

Top of the World

Six Degrees Records

Rating: ★★★★

Indo-Canadian singer Kiran Ahluwalia has flown somewhat under the radar in Europe, winning Songlines’ 2009 Best Newcomer award only after...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2024

Review of Ballads: Murder, pIntrigue, Love, Discord

Ballads: Murder, pIntrigue, Love, Discord

Alistair Anderson | Ewan MacColl | Jackie Daly | Louis Killen | Peter Bellamy | Scan Tester | The McPeake Family

Topic TSCD126

Rating: ★★★★

Topic continue to mark their 70th anniversary with the release of seven classic albums from their catalogue in sumptuously packaged...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Faso Denou

Faso Denou

Farafina | King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal I | Omar Pene & Super Diamono | Remmy Ongala & Orchestre Super Matimila | SE Rogie | The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar

Real World

Rating: ★★★

The rustic Wiltshire village of Box in the Cotswolds could hardly be more quintessentially English. The Rev W Awdry, who...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2022

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