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Review of Nó Na Orelha

Nó Na Orelha

Criolo

Top of the World

Sterns Music

Rating: ★★★★★

Since Nó Na Orelha was released in Brazil last year, the São Paulo rapper Criolo has become one of the...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of The Rough Guide to the Music of Scandinavia

The Rough Guide to the Music of Scandinavia

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

This compilation takes a broad view of Scandinavia, going beyond the usual Norway/Sweden/ Denmark configuration and taking in fellow Nordic...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of 22 Strings

22 Strings

Seckou Keita

Top of the World

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

After his sublime album, Clychau Dibon, with Welsh harpist Catrin Finch that won Best Cross-Cultural Collaboration in the 2014 Songlines...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2015

Review of Zama Zama

Zama Zama

Battlefield Band

Temple Records COMD2012

Rating: ★★★

A Zulu expression, roughly translating as let‘s try our luck’, might not seem the likeliest choice of title for a...

Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: March/2010

Review of Xalam

Xalam

Ben Aylon

Top of the World

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Born in Israel, Ben Aylon has spent much of the last dozen years in West Africa and in particular in...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2021

Review of Momo Le Doyen

Momo Le Doyen

Momo Wandel Soumah

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

The Guinea-born saxophonist, singer and composer, who died in 2003 at the age of 77, was one of Africa’s greatest...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of The Adventures of Prince Ahmed

The Adventures of Prince Ahmed

The Khoury Project

Institut du Monde Arabe

Rating: ★★★★★

This CD/DVD combination is absolutely brilliant, not least for the restoration of this ground-breaking animated film by the German Film...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2013

Review of Grá agus Bás

Grá agus Bás

Donnacha Dennehy

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

As a signee of the powerhouse American label Nonesuch, Donnacha Dennehy rubs shoulders with world music luminaries like the Buena...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2011

Review of Yellow Fever/Na Poi

Yellow Fever/Na Poi

Fela Kuti

Rating: ★★★★★

It’s now 16 years since Fela Kuti died and his legendary status continues to grow. The problem with legends, though,...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2013

Review of Live at the BBC

Live at the BBC

Richard Thompson & Linda Thompson

Island/Universal

Rating: ★★★★★

Richard Thompson fans require deep pockets. This is not the first box-set to concentrate on the man's extensive oeuvre, and...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

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