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Review of Power Punch!!!

Power Punch!!!

Owiny Sigoma Band

Top of the World

Brownswood Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

An apt title indeed! Owiny Sigoma Band have aimed high and stolen the electronic Afro-roots crown. Their music has become...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: July/2013

Review of Meridian 68

Meridian 68

Dagadana

Karrot Kommando Records

Rating: ★★★★

We are getting used to wild and wonderful global collaborations. But this must still be a first; a Polish-Ukrainian band...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Shine

Shine

Caroline Keane

Caroline Keane Music

Rating: ★★★★

Caroline Keane has had an increasingly prominent presence on the Irish and international touring circuit since she was 15. Now...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2020

Review of ¡Caramba!

¡Caramba!

Bigre!

Grolektif Productions

Rating: ★★★

For their sixth album, this French band took on quite a project. After two visits to Cuba, leader and trumpeter...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2017

Review of Horizon

Horizon

Anyango

Jowi Music

Rating: ★★★

Beginning as it does with the out-of-place Xhosa hymn, ‘Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika’, this otherwise delightful album gets off to an...

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Greatest Jamaican Beat

Greatest Jamaican Beat

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Cherry Red Records

Rating: ★★★★

Two Duke Reid-produced collections have been offset here to create a killer introduction to rocksteady reggae. The first, Greatest Jamaica...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2019

Review of Voice + Vision: Songs of Resistance, Democracy and Peace

Voice + Vision: Songs of Resistance, Democracy and Peace

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Topic Records (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★

‘The Internationale’ was Topic Records’ first ever release, with the jollier ‘The Man that Waters the Workers’ Beer’ on the...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Peoplewatching

Peoplewatching

Socalled

Membran

Rating: ★★

I’ve got a lot of time for Socalled, Montréal rapper and producer. His early work with Sophie Solomon and his...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Aug/Sep/2015

Review of Black Birds are Dancing Over Me

Black Birds are Dancing Over Me

Danny Michel & The Garifuna Collective

Cumbancha

Rating: ★★★

For those who do not know him or his work, Danny Michel is a folk-rock singer from Ontario, whose reflective,...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: October/2013

Review of Coat-Tails Flying

Coat-Tails Flying

John Kirkpatrick

Fledg''ling Records

Rating: ★★★★

Being able to play just about any kind of music on any kind of squeezebox (with buttons, that is), John...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2017

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