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Review of Como Lo Ves

Como Lo Ves

Lariba

Ventilador Music CDA066

Rating: ★★★

With their selection box of various Latin styles, Lariba are another border-erasing product of music’s global village. The eight-piece –...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Rhythm & Jews Revisited

Rhythm & Jews Revisited

The Klezmatics

Piranha

Rating: ★★★★★

New York klezmer band The Klezmatics are celebrating their 40th anniversary and that includes a (first-time) vinyl release of absolutely...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: January/2026

Review of Mahku

Mahku

Manizeh

LEITER

Rating: ★★★★

On Mahku, her striking debut for Nils Frahm’s LEITER label, Manizeh Rimer bridges ancient devotion and the smoother edges of...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: February/March/2026

Review of Faka Mulilo

Faka Mulilo

Zangoma

Svart Records

Rating: ★★

As a boy in the late 90s growing up in the village of Kolomwe in Zambia, Waina Kolomwe was given...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2025

Review of Vamp

Vamp

Fitkin

GFR

Rating: ★★★

Source music and minimalist systems music are the scaffold on which contemporary composer Graham Fitkin erects the dense, multi-part instrumental...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2017

Review of Sojourns: Volume 1

Sojourns: Volume 1

Nava

Nava

Rating: ★★★

Following 2017's Tapestry, Nava are here again to prove that Irish and Persian music are not as unlikely bedfellows as...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2020

Review of Live in Amsterdam

Live in Amsterdam

Cristina Branco

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

What’s outstanding about this re-released first recording of Cristina Branco, from 1997, is not only that we get to hear...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2012

Review of Palenque Palenque: Champeta Criolla & Afro Roots in Colombia 1975-91

Palenque Palenque: Champeta Criolla & Afro Roots in Colombia 1975-91

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Soundway SNDWCD22

Rating: ★★★★

Another delivery of surprises from the vaults of the Palenque (Bogota) and Soundway (London) labels bring more mid-20th century Colombian...

Reviewed by Sue Steward in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Medea

Medea

Eleni Karaindrou

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Composed to accompany performances of Euripides’ bloody revenge tragedy Medea at the EpÍdavros and Athens Festivals in 2011, Eleni Karaindrou’s...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2014

Review of Lunar

Lunar

Ross Daly & Kelly Thoma

Ross Daly

Rating: ★★★★

This double CD is a fascinating mix. The legendary lyra player Ross Daly and his student, the equally brilliant musician...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2018

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