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Review of Titik Api

Titik Api

Harry Roesli

La Munai Racords

Rating: ★★★★

Harry Roesli was a political and social activist and prominent member of the tradisi baru (new tradition) Indonesian artists who...

Reviewed by Andy Channing in issue: October/2020

Review of Aynaabe

Aynaabe

La Musique d'Issa Sow

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Rating: ★★★

The traditional bowed violin of the Senegalese Peul shepherds is called nianiorou or riti. Former shepherd Issa Sow is perhaps...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2020

Review of Übersee

Übersee

La Brass Banda

Top of the World

Full Price

Rating: ★★★★★

The Süddeutsche funkateers are back with a bang. For those listeners who were lucky enough to stumble across last year's...

Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: March/2010

Review of Savor

Savor

Sarah Aroeste

Sarah Aroeste

Rating: ★★

Music and food go well together. So much so that singer Sarah Aroeste and chef Susan Barocas decided to join...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2023

Review of Voisinages

Voisinages

Le Vent du Nord

La Compagnie Du Nord

Rating: ★★★★

Le Vent du Nord have been at the forefront of the Quebecois progressive folk movement for more than two decades,...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: January/2026

Review of In Between Thoughts… A New World

In Between Thoughts… A New World

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Rubyworks

Rating: ★★★

The follow-up to the Mexican duo's Grammy-winning Mettavolution follows a similarly spiritual motivation – whereas that record was shaped by...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2023

Review of Live in France

Live in France

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Rubyworks

Rating: ★★

Who would ever have thought that two Mexican guitarists who busked the streets of Dublin would turn out to be...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2011

Review of Eusebio

Eusebio

Giulia y Los Tellarini

Maik Maier CDMM01

Rating: ★

Two years ago the Italian singer Giulia Tellarini and her chums were among the multi-national swarms of tourists strumming guitars...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2010

Review of iViV

iViV

Oriane Lacaille

Music MDC/[PIAS]

Rating: ★★★★

When you listen closely to Oriane Lacaille’s music, you inveitably think of Leyla McCalla. The Creole quality of Lacaille’s songs...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2023

Review of Lampascioni e Cianfrusaglie

Lampascioni e Cianfrusaglie

Le Tre Sorelle

La Paranza del Geco

Rating: ★★★

Le Tre Sorelle (the Three Sisters) are a young female trio of singers and multiinstrumentalists, who are not actually sisters....

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Apr/May/2014

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