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Review of Synthesizing the Silk Roads

Synthesizing the Silk Roads

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ostinato Records

Rating: ★★★★★

The title and subheading (Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock and Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia) say...

Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: November/2024

Review of We Have Waited Too Long

We Have Waited Too Long

The Jazzanians

Ubuntu Music

Rating: ★★★★

At the height of apartheid in 1983, Darius Brubeck, son of the legendary jazz giant Dave Brubeck and an accomplished...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024

Review of Concert Program

Concert Program

Penguin Cafe Orchestra | Simon Jeffes

Penguin Cafe

Rating: ★★★★

The orchestra that was the fruit of a feverish, food-poisoned dream in the south of France in the early 1970s...

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

Review of Viva Tu

Viva Tu

Manu Chao

Because Music

Rating: ★★★★★

It has been 17 years since Manu Chao’s last studio album, 2007’s La Radiolina – but then he has never...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2024

Review of 1990

1990

Szászcsávás Band

Fonó Records

Rating: ★★★

The village of Szászcsávás in Romania only has 1,000 inhabitants, but its fame far outweighs its size thanks to its...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2019

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