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Review of Gecekondu

Gecekondu

Baba Zula

Doublemoon

Rating: ★★★

There is something regal in the music of Baba Zula – the elegant, yearning vocals of Elena Hristova, the stately...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2011

Review of Sara Correia

Sara Correia

Sara Correia

Universal Music Portugal

Rating: ★★★★

Occasionally, a new voice reminds us that traditional fado is still very much alive and proves that the pop or...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2019

Review of Anchoress

Anchoress

Anna Tam

Tam Records

Rating: ★★★

Where the world of early music meets traditional folk is where you'll find the likes of Wilde Roses and Mediaeval...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2021

Review of Exile Vibration

Exile Vibration

Kyab Yul-Sa

Nangma Productions

Rating: ★★★

Kyab Yul-Sa is a collaboration between Lobsang Chonzor and French musicians Margaux Liénard (fiddle, bouzouki) and Julien Lahaye (percussion). The...

Reviewed by Thomas Williams in issue: November/2018

Review of Ora Doci Ora Margos

Ora Doci Ora Margos

Elida Almeida

Lusafrica

Rating: ★★★★

Who is Elida Almeida? Across 2015, many other music lovers will ask the same question. That is because this, the...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2015

Review of Eu Preciso de um Liquidificador

Eu Preciso de um Liquidificador

Graveola

Mais Um Discos

Rating: ★★★

With its musicality, playful melodies and wide mix of influences (samba, choro, pop and doo wop are all in the...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of El Boom Boom

El Boom Boom

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Tumi TUMI159

Rating: ★★★★

Now here’s a turn up for the books. The indefatigable Tumi Records of Bath has stumbled across a compilation containing...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2010

Review of Jazz Is Dead 026

Jazz Is Dead 026

Antonio Carlos & Jocafi

Jazz is Dead

Rating: ★★★★★★★★

Working together since 1969, the hugely popular musical partnership of Antonio Carlos and Jocafi combines the folk traditions of their...

Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: May/2026

Review of Heal & Harrow

Heal & Harrow

Heal & Harrow

Shadowside Records

Rating: ★★★★

At a time when there is a movement afoot to pardon the 4,000 or so women who found themselves at...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2022

Review of The Art of the Lyra

The Art of the Lyra

Stelios Petrakis

Top of the World

Ocora Music France

Rating: ★★★★

Talented composer-musician Stelios Petrakis emerged from Ross Daly's teaching workshops in 1999. Daly, a Crete resident and multi-instrumentalist had himself...

Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

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