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Review of Mazel Tov!

Mazel Tov!

Les Nuages Ensemble

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

Klezmer comes in all shapes and sizes and this band is no exception – a group of Italian women with...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: May/2016

Review of Afrika Festival: Live in Hertme 2

Afrika Festival: Live in Hertme 2

Orchestre Les Mangelepa & Dieuf-Dieul de Thies

Very Open Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★★

The second CD to be released of live recordings from the excellent annual Afrika Festival in Hertme in the Netherlands...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: December/2018

Review of Aboogi

Aboogi

Imarhan

Top of the World

City Slang

Rating: ★★★★★

All aboard the Touareg camel train once again for Imarhan’s third album Aboogi – and a serene, timeless trip across...

Reviewed by Nigel Willamson in issue: March/2022

Review of Peacock

Peacock

Dr L Subramaniam & Roby Lakatos

Top of the World

Avanti Classic

Rating: ★★★★

The meeting of two virtuoso violinists from different genres is always interesting. Roby Lakatos is from a long dynasty of...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2020

Review of A South Asian Suite

A South Asian Suite

Arun Ghosh

Top of the World

Camoci Records

Rating: ★★★★

There are many bear-traps that Indian fusion records tend to fall into – pretentiousness, over-complexity and cod spirituality being among...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of El Mito de la Pérgola

El Mito de la Pérgola

Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna

Top of the World

Petit Indie

Rating: ★★★★

If any musician is going to reconfigure the airy strangeness of Andean music, Chilean singer Pascuala Ilabaca might be the...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2018

Review of The Moral of the Elephant

The Moral of the Elephant

Martin & Eliza Carthy

Top of the World

Topic

Rating: ★★★★★

We’ve heard them together in Waterson:Carthy, but this is the first time father and daughter have recorded as a duo,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2014

Review of Songs from the Bardo

Songs from the Bardo

Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal & Jesse Paris Smith

Smithonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Dealing with dying is a major aspect of both the sacred and secular. Songs from the Bardo is a small...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: December/2019

Review of Nedaye Asemani

Nedaye Asemani

Shahkilid

Muziekpublique

Rating: ★★★★

The spiritual but contagious excite¬ment that we have come to associate with Iranian classical music is abundantly present on this...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Richard Galliano Au Brésil

Richard Galliano Au Brésil

Richard Galliano

Top of the World

Milan Music

Rating: ★★★★

Forró is Brazil's wildest, wackiest and most wonderful rhythm. The musicologists trace its form to the Portuguese court and its...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2014

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