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Review of Do Norte

Do Norte

A Bossa Eletrica

Connective Records

Rating: ★★

With lyrics in Portuguese and perfect pronunciation you could be forgiven for thinking A Bossa Eletrica are from Brazil. In...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2012

Review of Trinidad-Calypso 1939-59

Trinidad-Calypso 1939-59

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Frémeaux & Associés

Rating: ★★★

This double CD meanders across 20 years of Trinidad and Tobago musical history offering a warm, humorous chronicle of a...

Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: March/2012

Review of Light Up the Dark

Light Up the Dark

The Outside Track

Larimer Records

Rating: ★★★

There is a stadium feel to The Outside Track's music. The pan-Celtic quintet (from Ireland, Scotland and Cape Breton) have...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of Mazes

Mazes

Harri Endersby

Ivy Crown Records

Rating: ★★★★

On her second album, Mazes, Harri Endersby subtly blurs the line between traditional and contemporary folk music, with added birdsong...

Reviewed by Charlie Long in issue: April/2020

Review of Getaway

Getaway

Kolonel Djafaar

Batov Records

Rating: ★★★★

The simplest and most common description of Kolonel Djafaar’s sound is as a meeting of Ethio-jazz and Afrobeat. And that’s...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2024

Review of The Color of Silence

The Color of Silence

Cecilia Zabala

Acoustic Music Records

Rating: ★★★★

Every now and again you find an artist whose music is like arrows ’ each note fired straight through your...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: June/2019

Review of Minas Terra

Minas Terra

Anne Simoni

Cambuka CP0010

Rating: ★★★

A native of Brazil’s Minas Gerais, Philadelphia-based Anne Simoni follows in some seriously venerable footsteps, citing the likes of Milton...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2010

Review of My Roots

My Roots

Suzanna Owiyo

Kirkelig Kulturverksted

Rating: ★★★★

Kenyan singer-songwriter Suzanna Owiyo has her third album released on a Scandinavian label and sponsored by a Norwegian arts foundation....

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Orion

Orion

Dina Ögon

Top of the World

Playground Music

Rating: ★★★★

Orion is the third album from Scandinavian soul group Dina Ögon (Your Eyes). What do they sound like? Well, this...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: March/2024

Review of Diivan Jäljet

Diivan Jäljet

Johanna Juhola

Westpark

Rating: ★★★★

The Finnish accordionist Johanna Juhola is a Björk-like figure: enigmatic, daring, witty, unpredictable, warm, passionate and utterly brilliant. She's been...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: July/2018

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