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Review of Famous Fados on Portuguese Guitar

Famous Fados on Portuguese Guitar

Custódio Castelo

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

Famous Fados is the latest instalment in a series of discs showcasing Custódio Castelo’s talent as a solo artist (his...

Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: October/2020

Review of Viv Tolerans

Viv Tolerans

Tetra

Footprint Records

Rating: ★★

Ingrid Brännström, Sanna Källman, Anna Ottertun and Maria Stellas formed Tetra in 2006; the four female vocalists have backgrounds in,...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Some Strange Country

Some Strange Country

Crooked Still

Top of the World

Signature Sounds

Rating: ★★★★★

Crooked Still, the most exciting bluegrass bandcurrently on the American scene, are a groupof five who met at the music...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: March/2011

Review of What's Not Enough About That?

What's Not Enough About That?

Vula Viel

Vula Viel

Rating: ★★★★

This third album shows how Vula Viel have very quickly become a band whose new releases you breathlessly await and...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: May/2020

Review of Big Box of Afrosound

Big Box of Afrosound

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Vampisoul VINYL ONLY

Rating: ★★★★

This eminently collectable box set of ten vinyl 7” singles will be a boon to any DJ overburdened by the...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2015

Review of Mosaïk

Mosaïk

Vishtèn

PTVish

Rating: ★★★

Many artists from many different places feel that in order to bring contemporary audiences to traditional material, they need to...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: October/2013

Review of O’Neill's Tunes

O’Neill's Tunes

Dan Walsh

Rooksmere Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Starting life as a book, it was inevitable that Dan Walsh would end up recording his dream project, O’Neill's Tunes....

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: May/2023

Review of Callejera

Callejera

La Perla

Top of the World

Mambo Negro Records

Rating: ★★★★

La Perla have established themselves so insidiously into the fabric of contemporary Colombian music that it’s hard to believe this...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/February/2023

Review of White African Power

White African Power

Tanzania Albinism Collective

Six Degrees

Rating: ★★★

It's a bold and ambitious idea to enter an isolated community who have no experience of singing and ask them...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: August/2017

Review of The Vortex Sessions

The Vortex Sessions

Benjamim Taubkin & Adriano Adewale

Núcleo Contemporâneo

Rating: ★★★

For the past decade and a half, Benjamim Taubkin's São Paulo-based Núcleo Contemporàneo label has been quietly nurturing some of...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2013

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