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Review of DJ Lubi Jovanovic presents Salsa Funk Experience

DJ Lubi Jovanovic presents Salsa Funk Experience

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Nascente

Rating: ★★★

Here’s yet another addition to Nascente’s Funk Experience series – Kid Loco’s French Funk Experience has been released simultaneously –...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Moyuba Baba, Moyuba Yeye

Moyuba Baba, Moyuba Yeye

The London Lucumi Choir

Movimientos

Rating: ★★★★

Now 12 years old, the London Lucumi Choir continues to do extraordinary community-centred arts work and celebrates the rich, syncretistic...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2018

Review of Dawning

Dawning

Saffron

Tames Records

Rating: ★★★★

We all know the path of fusion is strewn with many pitfalls. What sounds good in theory often lacks coherence...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Ikivirta

Ikivirta

Sarah Palu

Sarah Palu

Rating: ★★★

Finnish-French composer Sarah Palu chose to release this, her debut, as a download code hidden within a bar of vegan...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: November/2020

Review of Africa Caribe

Africa Caribe

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Fania

Rating: ★★★

To inject some life into their catalogue of 4,000 albums, the current owners of Fania Records turned over master tapes...

Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: October/2011

Review of Jewish Folksongs from the Shtetl

Jewish Folksongs from the Shtetl

Olga Mieleszczuk

Olga Mieleszczuk

Rating: ★★★

Olga Mieleszczuk is a classically trained Polish singer and accordionist. In recent years she has focused on Yiddish and Jewish...

Reviewed by Helen Beer in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

Review of Knock Knock Get Up

Knock Knock Get Up

David Wax Museum

Top of the World

Mark of the Leopard

Rating: ★★★★

These days the indie-folk gimmick is so over-used that it's easy to dismiss any band that daims to have folk/roots...

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: July/2013

Review of Egoli

Egoli

Africa Express

Top of the World

Africa Express Records

Rating: ★★★★★

All aboard Damon Albarn's exhilarating Africa Express again, this time bound for Johannesburg. Albarn travelled to South Africa last year...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Review of Salsa Bestial

Salsa Bestial

Orquesta el Macabeo

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★

The brief but intense number ‘Macabiónico’ gives a good idea of what to expect from Puerto Rica’s finest: solid hardcore...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2013

Review of Salsa Brothers

Salsa Brothers

Eddie & Charlie Palmieri

Nascente

Rating: ★★★★

Hot on the heels of DJ Lubi Jovanovic's recent compilation for Nascente, Salsa Funk Experience (reviewed in Songlines #75), comes...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2011

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