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Review of Amor Festa Devoção

Amor Festa Devoção

Maria Bethânia

Biscoito Fino

Rating: ★★★

Maria Bethânia is most famous outside Brazil as Caetano Veloso’s sister. But within Brazil she is as big a star...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of Palermo Snow

Palermo Snow

John Renbourn

Shanachie

Rating: ★★★★

There's quite a gap between Traveller's Prayer, released in 1998, and this latest album, which Renbourn describes as ‘a departure...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2011

Review of Anewal – The Walking Man

Anewal – The Walking Man

Alhousseini Anivolla

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★★

It’s unclear whether guitarist and vocalist Alhousseini Mohamed Anivolla has left Etran Finatawa for a solo career or if this...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2012

Review of Estar Ahí

Estar Ahí

Acho Estol

Acho Estol

Rating: ★★★★

With or without his band La Chicana, Acho Estol’s music always has something of a tea-concert quality. An airy lightness...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2022

Review of Proa

Proa

Tremor

Wonderwheel Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

For anyone who thinks Argentina is only about tango, then think again. Over the last decade, a new mashed-up sound...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Apr/May/2014

Review of The Blue Road

The Blue Road

Snow Owl

Inner Circle Music

Rating: ★★

World music fusion comes in many shapes and forms but, in the case of Colombian bassist Juan Garcia-Herreros (aka Snow...

Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: December/2016

Review of Folk Singer-Humdinger: Just About as Good as it Gets!

Folk Singer-Humdinger: Just About as Good as it Gets!

Bob Dylan

Smith & Co

Rating: ★★★★★

This collection of 45 tracks recorded by Dylan between 1961 and 62 is not an officially sanctioned release, but neither...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of The Rough Guide to Women of the World

The Rough Guide to Women of the World

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★

In contrast to many of the Rough Guides, which focus on one specific genre or artist, this was perhaps an...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: June/2019

Review of A Viagem Das Horas

A Viagem Das Horas

José Mauro

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

This is a reissue of music from a reclusive Brazilian musician who was long assumed dead or ‘disappeared’ by the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: July/2021

Review of Lulu

Lulu

Good Morning Bedlam

Erika Records

Rating: ★★★

In 2021, Good Morning Bedlam ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund their third full-length album. Fans from around world pledged...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2022

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