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Review of Benin – Yoruba Music

Benin – Yoruba Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ocora Radio France

Rating: ★★★★

This is a double CD of field recordings made in 1958, 1969 and between 1996 and 1999, lavishly pre¬sented like...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2012

Review of Free West Papua: Rize of the Morning Star Vol 2

Free West Papua: Rize of the Morning Star Vol 2

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Rize of the Morning Star

Rating: ★★★★

Like its 2013 predecessor, this compilation features artists from the Pacific and other countries, banding together in musical solidarity with...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2016

Review of Loundo (Un Jour)

Loundo (Un Jour)

Moh! Kouyaté

Foli Son

Rating: ★★

Moh! (sic) Kouyaté was given his first guitar by his grandmother in the Guinean capital Conakry, where he grew up,...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: May/2016

Review of Real Music for Unreal Times: Vol 2

Real Music for Unreal Times: Vol 2

Kumea Sound

Future Rust Records

Rating: ★★★

Limitations can spark creativity and the global lockdown necessitated by COVID-19 has been nothing if not a limit to musicians....

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Mother

Mother

Xylouris White

Bella Union

Rating: ★★★★★

George Xylouris and Jim White are a mesmerising double act, what with the Cretan laouto player and singer's nimble string...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2018

Review of Faileasan (Reflections)

Faileasan (Reflections)

Joy Dunlop

Sradag Music

Rating: ★★★

Faileasan (Reflections) is the result of personal and scholarly research into Argyll's music and Gaelic cultural traditions – one that...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2013

Review of Global Control/Invisible Invasion

Global Control/Invisible Invasion

AMMAR 808

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★

Tunisian producer Sofyann Ben Youssef, aka AMMAR 808, created an extraordinary album Maghreb United, a Top of the World in...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2020

Review of Deg | 10

Deg | 10

Calan

Sain

Rating: ★★★★

By way of celebrating ten years since the release of their debut, Bling, the Welsh quintet have compiled this largely...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Review of Live at Cooper Hall

Live at Cooper Hall

Cara Dillon

Charcoal Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Derry singer is a reliably captivating live draw considering that voice, those songs, the subtle acoustic accompaniment of husband...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2021

Review of Na Drê

Na Drê

Dobet Gnahoré

Contre-Jour

Rating: ★★★★★

There are several distinctive modern musical styles unique to the Ivory Coast, but generally the country is known as a...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2014

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