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Review of Turlku 4: New Music from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands

Turlku 4: New Music from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ngaanyatjarra Media

Rating: ★★★★

An outback project developed in Australia’s Western Desert, (a sparsely populated region with hundreds of kilometres between remote Aboriginal communities),...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2011

Review of Nosotras Somos

Nosotras Somos

Las Migas

Chesapik

Rating: ★★★

In the male– dominated world of flamenco, all-female groups like Las Migas are still a rarity – even in Catalonia’s...

Reviewed by Russell Parton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of Telyn Wrachïod

Telyn Wrachïod

Rhodri Davies | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

Top of the World

Amgen

Rating: ★★★★★

We all need to escape from time to time, physically, mentally, spiritually. Listening to Rhodri Davies’ latest and eighth album...

Reviewed by Elliw Iwan in issue: August/2024

Review of Do Not Be Afraid

Do Not Be Afraid

Vula Viel

Vula Viel Records

Rating: ★★★

London-based trio Vula Viel are a live sensation. Do Not Be Afraid is their second recorded release, following on from...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: March/2019

Review of Quiet Revolutions

Quiet Revolutions

Namvula

NMR Records

Rating: ★★★

Quiet Revolutions is album number two from the UK-based Zambian singer-songwriter Namvula, following 2014's Shiwezwa. She demonstrates a strong voice...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Review of Latin Perspective

Latin Perspective

Ahmed Dickinson & The Santiago Quartet

Cubafilin Records

Rating: ★★★

A government-owned bar named Yellow Submarine has recently opened in Havana. Its Beatles-themed interior – porthole windows, blue-and-yellow interior, Beatles...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of Roots Travellers

Roots Travellers

Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan

World Village

Rating: ★★★

‘Gypsy’ is a term mistakenly given to Indian migrants who arrived in Constan¬tinople around 1,000 years ago: the locals, having...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2011

Review of The Peasant Girl

The Peasant Girl

Viktoria Mullova

Onyx

Rating: ★★★★

Don't be put off by the contrived photo on the cover of this eclectic double CD: much love has gone...

Reviewed by Michael Church in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Afro-Colombian Sound Modernizers

Afro-Colombian Sound Modernizers

Son Palenque

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★

South and Central America are dotted with communities made up of the descendants of African slaves who escaped their oppressors....

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Kamalamba

Kamalamba

Raphaëlle Brochet & Philippe Aerts

Igloo

Rating: ★★

Stripping back an arrangement to just bass and voice can make for a spellbinding moment of intimacy. Kamalamba is an...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: March/2018

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