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Review of Kwenge

Kwenge

Kareyce Fotso

Contre Jour

Rating: ★★★★

Kareyce Fotso is an African renaissance woman. A bio–chemistry graduate with a diploma in broadcasting and photography, the Cameroonian singer...

Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Buenosaurios: Leyendas de la Noche de los Tangos

Buenosaurios: Leyendas de la Noche de los Tangos

Acho Estol y la Orquesta Moscas de Bar

Galileo

Rating: ★★★

Acho Estol is one of Argentina's leading contemporary tango lights, best known for his performances with his band La Chicana,...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Malta's Lost Voices

Malta's Lost Voices

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Filfla Records

Rating: ★★★★

Now that's what I call a CD set. A foot-tall board-encased booklet, shaped like an old gramophone loudspeaker trumpet, is...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2011

Review of Ali

Ali

Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin

Dead Oceans

Rating: ★★★★

This is the second album Vieux Farka Touré has released as a tribute to his father Ali Farka Touré in...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2022

Review of Corriente Vital: 10 Años

Corriente Vital: 10 Años

Ojos de Brujo

Warner

Rating: ★★★★

The last ten years seem to have passed as quickly as the pulsing beats in ‘Corre Lola Corre’ for Ojos...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2011

Review of Céu e Mar

Céu e Mar

Leila Pinheiro & Nelson Faria

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Leila Pinheiro has an amazing CV; over 30 years she has recorded 16 albums; she has collaborated with the likes...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2012

Review of Indus Raag: Music Beyond Borders

Indus Raag: Music Beyond Borders

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Tehzeeb Foundation

Rating: ★★★★

While the large-scale human suffering at the Partition of India (1947) is very well documented, very few people are aware...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of Bermuda: Gombay & Calypso 1953-1960

Bermuda: Gombay & Calypso 1953-1960

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Frémeaux et Associés

Rating: ★★

This double CD follows other Frémeaux recordings of 50s Caribbean popular music. But whereas the previous compilations Jamaica Mento and...

Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: March/2013

Review of Baul-Fakir Gostho Lila: Conversations between Ma Joshoda and the Cowherds

Baul-Fakir Gostho Lila: Conversations between Ma Joshoda and the Cowherds

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Sadhu Guru Boishnob Recordings

Rating: ★★★

It could be just happenstance, but I detect a reawakening of interest in traditional folk culture in the Indian subcontinent....

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

Review of Toma Tu Jabón Kapax

Toma Tu Jabón Kapax

Los Pirañas

Top of the World

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★★★

It's so rare these days to And music that sounds completely fresh, that is in any way different to everything...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Apr/May/2013

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