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Review of Songs of Separation

Songs of Separation

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Navigator Records

Rating: ★★★

The star-studded folk ensemble has become a staple of both stage and CD – witness the likes of The Full...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2016

Review of Time Was Away

Time Was Away

Emily Portman & Rob Harbron

Furrow Records

Rating: ★★★★

Portman and Harbron are, in their different ways, leading lights of contemporary English folk – Portman as a singer, songwriter...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Días Felices

Días Felices

Lone Piñon

LM Duplication

Rating: ★★★

No wonder artists and dreamers gravitate to the American south-west in search of landscapes, inspiration and spirit-reviving experiences. For all...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2017

Review of Meu Único Medo É Primavera

Meu Único Medo É Primavera

Ian Lasserre

Ajabu!

Rating: ★★★

After a brief opener in which the Paulistano musician intones the album's title four times to the sole accompaniment of...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2023

Review of Tants Caps, Tants Joguets

Tants Caps, Tants Joguets

Orchestra Fireluche

Discmedi Blau

Rating: ★★★★

‘Everybody fancies a nice pork pie,’ claims the chorus of ‘Tiny Kitchen’, sung by a duo of guest vocalists known...

Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of It’s a Good, Good Thing: The Latin Soul of Fania Records

It’s a Good, Good Thing: The Latin Soul of Fania Records

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Fania Records

Rating: ★★★

Fania Records was started by Dominican musician Johnny Pacheco in 1964 with the idea of getting Latin recordings made by...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2022

Review of OO MP3

OO MP3

DJ Kainga

1000Hz Records

Rating: ★★★

Polish label 1000HZ have spent the last few years quietly putting out records of incredibly interesting music from Malawi, and...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2022

Review of Radio Bagdad

Radio Bagdad

Fawzy Al-Aiedy

Institut du Monde Arabe

Rating: ★★

Musical fusions are capricious beasts: there is no foolproof recipe for success, however interesting the idea behind them or talented...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: March/2013

Review of Vignettes

Vignettes

Tommy Khosla

Vadi Records

Rating: ★★★★

Vignettes is a series of small windows into the life, history and identity of its creator, London-based sitar player and...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2021

Review of On Tour/Reunion

On Tour/Reunion

The Young Ones of Guyana

BBE

Rating: ★★

It's 1965, British Guiana is on the cusp of independence, ready to throw off the corrupt yoke of Albion, and...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2019

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