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Review of With Love

With Love

wewantsounds

Rating: ★★★★

Egyptian-born Omar Khorshid was one of the finest guitarists in the Arab world, accompanying the likes of Oum Kalthoum at...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2021

Review of Sita

Sita

Alessia Tondo

Ipe Ipe Music

Rating: ★★★★

A formidable talent, an enfant prodige of the Salento music scene, Alessia Tondo, the female voice of the marvellous Canzoniere...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2022

Review of Kologo

Kologo

Alostmen

Top of the World

Strut

Rating: ★★★★

Stevo Atambire is already a big deal in Ghana, a streetboy-turned-pop star whose local releases are full of synths and...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2021

Review of White Nights

White Nights

Catriona McKay & Chris Stout

McKay Stout Music

Rating: ★★★

As members of the astoundingly energetic Shetland band Fiddler's Bid, Scottish harpist Catriona McKay and fiddler Chris Stout have been...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Radio Masoda

Radio Masoda

Franck Biyong

Tangential Music

Rating: ★★★★

On this, his latest of 20 albums, the Paris-based guitarist and composer adds to his native Cameroonian music generous pinches...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2024

Review of Nant

Nant

Poeji

Squama

Rating: ★★★★

At once calming and unsettling, meditative yet intentionally disquieting, this debut work by new collaboration Poeji gets under your skin...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2024

Review of Electro Baghdad

Electro Baghdad

Shiran & Bakal

Batov Records

Rating: ★★★★

Projects that fuse electronic and traditional music risk doing neither genre justice if they don’t get the basics – songwriting...

Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: September/2025

Review of Sonorous Present

Sonorous Present

Alex E Chávez

Artivist Entertainment

Rating: ★★★

Grammy-winning Quetzal Flores likes ‘working with talented people,’ so answered the call of this author, educator and member of Latinx...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2024

Review of Tales of Bobbi Niger

Tales of Bobbi Niger

TogoRhino

Straight Shooter

Rating: ★★★

Formed in Denmark in 2022, the quartet of guitarists Alain Apaloo and Olav Poulsen, harmonica player Peter Nande and percussionist...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2024

Review of Breton Music for Dummies

Breton Music for Dummies

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Keltia Musique KMCD513

Rating: ★★★

This is the first ‘Music for Dummies’ package I’ve come across. But I’ve been enlightened by the brand’s efforts, in...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

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