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Review of Holo Voyage: Inception

Holo Voyage: Inception

Gaiea Sanskrit

Jivamukti Music

Rating: ★★★

Inception is the inaugural release in the Holo Voyage series by Jivamukti Music, which aims to fuse devotional Sanskrit hymns...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2021

Review of Total Reggae: Chart Hits

Total Reggae: Chart Hits

VARIOUS ARTISTS

VP Records (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★

Total Reggae enters the Jamaican compilation market at the post-rocksteady age, choosing to dedicate the majority of its series to...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2013

Review of Colour by Number

Colour by Number

Leah Flanagan

Small Change Recoids

Rating: ★★★

Having grown up in Australia’s Northern Territory city of Darwin, singer-songwriter Leah Flanagan proudly claims a mixed multicultural heritage that...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2020

Review of Sublime Strings – South Indian Classical Music

Sublime Strings – South Indian Classical Music

Lalgudi G Jayaraman

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

The violinist Lalgudi Jayaraman is part of a long line of disciples of the famous Tyagaraja, an 18th-century composer and...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2011

Review of #NuNairobi

#NuNairobi

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Outhere Records DIGITAL ONLY

Rating: ★★★

Not just the banner for a new wave of artists, creatives and entrepreneurs that are proud to call the Kenyan...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: October/2019

Review of Huam

Huam

Salt House

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★

A sense of care taken is the abiding impression left by this trio of Scottish Highland and Island folk musicians....

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2020

Review of The Desperate Battle of the Birds

The Desperate Battle of the Birds

Breabach

Top of the World

Breabach Records BRE001CD

Rating: ★★★★

The second album from one of today's top young Scottish folk acts shares its arresting name with a well-known piobaireachd...

Reviewed by Susan Wilson in issue: June/2010

Review of Néo

Néo

Kaoru Watanabe

Watanabekaoru

Rating: ★★★★

The title of this recording, the first album of original compositions by Japanese-American instrumentalist Kaoru Watanabe, can loosely be translated...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2016

Review of Tango Mediterraneo

Tango Mediterraneo

Paolo Karim

Paolo Karim

Rating: ★

Paolo Karim Gozzo, a singer-songwriter with Sicilian and Moroccan origins, appeared on the Italian X Factor franchise in 2009. He...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2023

Review of Aberaeron Sunset

Aberaeron Sunset

Jadu

Global Heritage/Osmosys

Rating: ★

What, I was asking myself, would a crossover South Asian/ UK album thought up in a Welsh caravan sound like?...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

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