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Review of Funmilayo

Funmilayo

Funmilayo Afrobeat Orquestra

Top of the World

Funmilayo Afrobeat Orquestra

Rating: ★★★★

Formed of 11 black Brazilian women and non-binary people, the Funmilayo Afrobeat Orquestra began through a collective frustration over the...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: May/2023

Review of Death and Other Animals

Death and Other Animals

Faustus

Westpark Music

Rating: ★★★★

Messrs Rose, Sartin and Kirkpatrick are three crack players whose music has been heard far and wide – whether in...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of Raghu Dixit

Raghu Dixit

Raghu Dixit

Vishal & Shekhar Music VSMCCR

Rating: ★★★★

Do you wanna feel good? Raghu Dixit does. He has an exuberant optimism that epitomises modern India. While announcing in...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2010

Review of Before We Change Our Mind

Before We Change Our Mind

Beoga

Beoga Records

Rating: ★★★★

Take a handful of insanely talented Irish musicians, two accordions, guitar, fiddle, bodhrán, piano and vocals. Add 14 years of...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2016

Review of Bituca – The Definitive Collection

Bituca – The Definitive Collection

Milton Nascimento

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★

Definitive collections inevitably upset someone, and any attempt to sum up Milton Nascimento’s 45-year career in two CDs will be...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2012

Review of Alone (Ténéré)

Alone (Ténéré)

Terakaft

Out Here Records

Rating: ★★★★

Terakaft cannot be numbered among the legion of Tinariwen imitators to have emerged in recent years; they were there at...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2015

Review of Welcome to New Hoyle

Welcome to New Hoyle

Brad Fielder

Brad Fielder

Rating: ★★★

New Hoyle is a figment of Brad Fielder’s musical imagination. Inspired by a tiny, no-longer-extant town in north-west Oklahoma where...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2022

Review of Capacity to Love

Capacity to Love

Ibrahim Maalouf

Mister IBE

Rating: ★★★★

What do you do when you’ve performed from atop the Eiffel Tower, sold out such prestigious venues as the Barbican...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2022

Review of Most Jöttem

Most Jöttem

Félix Lajkó

Top of the World

Fonó

Rating: ★★★★

Félix Lajkó is Hungary's most groundbreaking violinist and this is one of his best recordings in years. He inhabits an...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Madre: The Hypnotic Dance's Time

Madre: The Hypnotic Dance's Time

Giuliano Gabriele

iCompany

Rating: ★★★★

Born in Latium's historic town of Sora, the Italian-French singer and diatonic accordionist Giuliano Gabriele here presents his second album,...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2016

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