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Review of What Goes Up

What Goes Up

Chicago Afrobeat Project

Chicago Afrobeat Project

Rating: ★★★

Some years ago a collective of local musicians came together in a series of weekly jam sessions in a West...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2017

Review of Bwati Kono Vol 1

Bwati Kono Vol 1

Lobi Traoré

Top of the World

KSK Records

Rating: ★★★★

The death of Lobi Traoré in 2010 at the age of 49 deprived the Malian music scene of a blues...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2013

Review of Outubro

Outubro

Azymuth

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Outubro means ‘Autumn,’ and to commemorate the welcome news that Azymuth are back in the recording studios in the autumn...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2016

Review of Jump Ups & Jollities

Jump Ups & Jollities

Travis Ward

Travis Ward

Rating: ★★★

‘Junkerdash is a term we applied to our peculiar take on traditional acoustic mountain music, which is filtered through a...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of After the Tempest

After the Tempest

Baka Beyond

March Hare Music

Rating: ★★★★

It was in 1992 that British musicians Martin Cradick and Su Hart conceived their improbable fusion of Celtic and Baka...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2014

Review of Kifak Inta

Kifak Inta

Fairuz

wewantsounds

Rating: ★★

The retro-specialist Parisian label Wewantsounds continues its vinyl-only series of releases by Fairuz, the eminent Lebanese singer. This time it's...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: March/2023

Review of Landscape Traces: New Music For Khaen, Vol Two

Landscape Traces: New Music For Khaen, Vol Two

Christopher Adler

Liber Pulveris Recordings

Rating: ★★★

The khaen is a bamboo free-reed mouth organ played by ethnic Laotians in Laos and Northeast Thailand. Performed solo, or...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: June/2023

Review of Thank You for Bringing Me Back to the Sky

Thank You for Bringing Me Back to the Sky

The Oldest Voice in the World (Azerbaijan)

Six Degrees Records

Rating: ★★★★★

The music we call global should thank the heavens, really, for the Grammy-winning producer and field recordist Ian Brennan, who...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2023

Review of Salsa Explosion: The Salsa Revolution 1969-1984

Salsa Explosion: The Salsa Revolution 1969-1984

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Fania/Strut Records

Rating: ★★★★

There are so many Latin compilations available these days that it almost warrants a separate tab on confused.com. But never...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of 90 years (1925-2015)

90 years (1925-2015)

Mikis Theodorakis

FM Records

Rating: ★★

Composer Mikis Theodorakis is a Greek national institution, best known overseas for his soundtracks to Zorba the Greek and Serpico....

Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: Aug/Sep/2015

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