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Review of Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band

Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band

Khun Narin

Innovative Leisure

Rating: ★★★

Khun Narin is the latest band to emerge from Thailand's north-east region, Isan, following the popularity of numerous YouTube uploads...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Maghreb K7 Club: Synth Raï, Chaoui & Staifi (1985-1997)

Maghreb K7 Club: Synth Raï, Chaoui & Staifi (1985-1997)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Bongo Joe Records

Rating: ★★★★

This compilation is a microcosm of Lyon's Maghreb music scene between 1985-1997. Most of the scene in the said city...

Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: June/2020

Review of Dendere Ngoma (Music Nest)

Dendere Ngoma (Music Nest)

Spirit Talk Mbira feat. Chartwell Dutiro

Ingoma

Rating: ★★★★

A promoter in Holland had booked [Spirit Talk Mbira] thinking that the band was full of African people ‘ recalls...

Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Bahaghari

Bahaghari

Lea Salonga

GLP Music

Rating: ★★★

Broadway star Lea Salonga is one of the most famous singers in the Philippines. To showcase the incredible diversity of...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: March/2018

Review of Le Chat Brel

Le Chat Brel

Gabriel Bismut

AMA

Rating: ★★★

French violinist Gabriel Bismut met Italian accordion player Maurizio Minardi while playing jazz in Paris four years ago. They discovered...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2020

Review of Urlar

Urlar

Breabach

Top of the World

Breabach Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Recently voted live act of the year at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards, Breabach have established themselves as...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2014

Review of Live in Paris

Live in Paris

The Master Musicians of Joujouka

Unlistenable Records

Rating: ★★★★

The collective of Sufi trance musicians led by Ahmed El Attar (one of two troupes spawning from the village of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021

Review of Between the Sky & Prairie

Between the Sky & Prairie

The Grasslands Ensemble & Daniel Ho

Wind Music

Rating: ★★★

Daniel Ho is a Grammy-winning Hawaiian musician and producer, best known for his innovative work on the ukulele. On Between...

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: March/2018

Review of Altur Mur

Altur Mur

Mimika Orchestra

Rika Muzika

Rating: ★★★★

You know that bit in From Dusk till Dawn when the film goes from kidnap story to vampire flick with...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2022

Review of So Much to Defend

So Much to Defend

Chris Wood

RUF Records

Rating: ★★★

As a certain Nobel Prize-winning songwriter once wrote, ‘people are crazy, times are strange’ and that has rarely been so...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2017

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