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Review of Porta do Coraçao

Porta do Coraçao

Ricardo Ribeiro

Top of the World

EMI Music Portugal

Rating: ★★★★★

Maybe you’ve heard of him through Rabih Abou-Khalil and the brilliant Em Português – a collaboration on which the Lebanese...

Reviewed by Gonçaio Frota in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Nicola Conte Presents Viagem 4

Nicola Conte Presents Viagem 4

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Far Out

Rating: ★★★

With his consistently excellent Viagem series, Italian jazz don Nicola Conte has compiled some of the richest, strangest and most...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2012

Review of Oy

Oy

Mohsen Namjoo

Fabrica Music STR70013

Rating: ★★

Mohsen Namjoo has created quite a buzz in Iran in recent years, initially as a singer-songwriter pushing the boundaries and...

Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: October/2010

Review of Ruminantia

Ruminantia

Horses Brawl

Brawl Records

Rating: ★★★★

From their beginnings as an enjoyable, slightly quirky, folk-inflected early music band, Horses Brawl have developed into a very different...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: July/2012

Review of Chamber Cairn

Chamber Cairn

Jack McNeill | Jack McNeill & Charlie Heys

Jack McNeill

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded across two days deep in the Cumbrian landscape, and written, performed and produced by Jack McNeill on clarinet and...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/2025

Review of Ben Haana Wa Maana

Ben Haana Wa Maana

DAM

Cooking Vinyl

Rating: ★★★

Popular Palestinian rap trio DAM return with a third album that features the same political and social fervour as the...

Reviewed by Yousif Nur in issue: July/2019

Review of Imaginary Archives Vol 1: Ritual Music from Nameless Civilisations

Imaginary Archives Vol 1: Ritual Music from Nameless Civilisations

Juhani Silvola

Eighth Nerve Audio

Rating: ★★★

Swedish innovator Juhani Silvola is set to release another three albums on his Eighth Nerve label after this – one...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: December/2017

Review of 60 Horses in My Herd

60 Horses in My Herd

Huun-Huur-Tu

Jaro

Rating: ★★★

This (vinyl only) re-release of the first album by Tuva's premier throat singing group is a welcome reminder of Kaigal-ool...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: March/2018

Review of Sorrows Away

Sorrows Away

The Unthanks

Rabble Rouser Music

Rating: ★★★★

The Unthanks have been closing their concerts with the title-track of their new album and finding that audiences are singing...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2022

Review of Anarouz

Anarouz

3MA

Top of the World

Mad Minute Music

Rating: ★★★★

It has been a decade since the three master musicians of 3MA – Ballaké Sissoko (kora), Driss El Maloumi (oud)...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2018

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