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Review of Supreme Talent Show

Supreme Talent Show

MC Waraba & Mélèké Tchatcho

Jarring Effects & Blanc Manioc DIGITAL ONLY

Rating: ★★★★★

Upon listening to this album, it is clear that MC Waraba and Mélèké Tchatcho deserve the confidence their album title...

Reviewed by Brian Taylor in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Review of Sones Jarochos y Huastecos y Más

Sones Jarochos y Huastecos y Más

Hermanos Herrera

Top of the World

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Everybody knows at least one son jarocho, even if they don’t realise it, and chances are they heard it while...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2018

Review of Ipê

Ipê

Trio in Uno

Quart de lune

Rating: ★★★

This is the second release from the Paris-based trio comprised of Brazilians Pablo Schinke and José Ferreira on cello and...

Reviewed by Michael Galea in issue: July/2019

Review of La Guitarra: Mi Vida

La Guitarra: Mi Vida

Juan Martín & Chaparro de Málaga

Top of the World

FlamencOVision

Rating: ★★★★

A sometime collaborator with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, Juan Martín is one of the most versatile flamenco guitarists currently...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2015

Review of Coming Home

Coming Home

Pat Thomas

Strut Records

Rating: ★★★★

Ghanaian highlife appears to be regaining its popularity of late, and those who witnessed Pat Thomas at WOMAD in July...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2016

Review of O Método

O Método

Rodrigo Leão

BMG/Uguru

Rating: ★★★

Since he left Madredeus in 1994, Rodrigo Leão has established himself as a masterful songwriter, working on a sort of...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2020

Review of Nedaye Asemani

Nedaye Asemani

Shahkilid

Muziekpublique

Rating: ★★★★

The spiritual but contagious excite¬ment that we have come to associate with Iranian classical music is abundantly present on this...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Floating Letters

Floating Letters

Tsuumi Sound System

Tsuumi Sound System

Rating: ★★★★

I’ve waxed lyrical about Tsuumi Sound System in the past, praising them for their brilliant approach to bringing together Finnish...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2013

Review of Blue Raag

Blue Raag

Samasa

Pan Records

Rating: ★★★★

A musical melting-pot, filtering Indian and Indonesian idioms, scales and off-kilter time signatures through blues-laced jazz, Blue Raag is the...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2020

Review of Cameos

Cameos

Mark Cain

Parenthèses Records

Rating: ★★★

Mark Cain lives in Fremantle, Australia, and specialises in a highly impressive number of reed and other wind instruments, as...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2021

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