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Review of King Papaya

King Papaya

Koby Israelite

Circus Mayhem CM1001

Rating: ★★

Accordionist, keyboard player and multi– instrumentalist Koby Israelite has produced a CD of startling grotesquerie. A grim, obsessive figuration on...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2010

Review of Great Tunes from the World Music Charts Europe

Great Tunes from the World Music Charts Europe

VARIOUS ARTISTS

CPT

Rating: ★★★

The World Music Charts Europe was founded 30 years ago by the European Broadcasting Union and has been compiled every...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2022

Review of New York Afternoon

New York Afternoon

Snowboy & the Latin Section

Top of the World

Snowboy Records

Rating: ★★★★

Any momentary disquiet on hearing guest vocalist Marc Evans’ lounge-lizard take on the title-track was quickly dispelled by what follows....

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2016

Review of Chili Houritki

Chili Houritki

Mounira Mitchala

Lusafrica

Rating: ★★★★

One of the few singers from Chad to emerge onto the international stage, Mitchala was first heard of half a...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2012

Review of Palya

Palya

Iwantja

Wantok Musik

Rating: ★★★★

The hottest thing in Australia’s Central Desert these days is the young Abori¬ginal band Iwantja. Hailing from the bush community...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of Beneath the Surface

Beneath the Surface

Kutcha Edwards

Kutcha Edwards

Rating: ★★★

The latest release from Melbourne-based Aboriginal singer-songwriter Kutcha Edwards further expands his repertoire of heartfelt songs, delivered with honesty and...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: May/2017

Review of Keme Borama

Keme Borama

Tiecoro Sissoko

KSK Records

Rating: ★★★★

This is the first internationally released recording from griot guitarist Tiecoro Sissoko and sadly it is a posthumous debut, Sissoko...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2014

Review of Chaos

Chaos

René Aubry

Music Box

Rating: ★★★

The French multi-instrumentalist's 26th album begins with the sound of rain and distant thunder, out of which comes a tremulous...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: December/2017

Review of Gaelré

Gaelré

Gráinne Holland

Gael Linn

Rating: ★★★★

Gaelré sees Belfast's Gráinne Holland delivering a spellbinding follow-up to her 2011 debut Teanga na nGael. Reunited with arranger and...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of The Rough Guide to a World of Psychedelia

The Rough Guide to a World of Psychedelia

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

This sampler is a bountiful taster for World Music Network's ongoing series of global psychedelic compilations, skipping madly from land...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2016

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