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Review of Try Paradise

Try Paradise

Try Paradise

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★

It's hard to tell who or what the wellspring of this album is, and, I might be wrong, but on...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2023

Review of Il Sesto Continente

Il Sesto Continente

La Banda di Piazza Caricamento

Felmay Records

Rating: ★★★

Though based in Genoa, La Banda di Piazza Caricamento is only Italian by location. The 12 members represent 12 nationalities...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2015

Review of Facing East

Facing East

Modus Quartet

CPL Music

Rating: ★★★★

Facing East is oriented primarily towards Armenia, celebrating the folk music of the Caucasus in adventurous fashion. The multi– national...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Review of Ebo Taylor

Ebo Taylor

Ebo Taylor | Ebo Taylor & Uhuru Yenzu

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★★

A leading innovator, musician, arranger and early collaborator with Fela Kuti, CK Mann and Pat Thomas (to name but a...

Reviewed by Peter Adjaye in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of The Impossible Wild

The Impossible Wild

The Last Inklings

The Last Inklings

Rating: ★★★

The Last Inklings are Leonardo MacKenzie and David Hoyland – MacKenzie is a classically trained cellist with 15 years of...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2021

Review of Across the Water

Across the Water

Alex Cumming & Nicola Beazley

Haystack Records

Rating: ★★

Having won himself a degree of UK folk-scene success with his group The Teacups, an a capella quartet who have...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: May/2017

Review of Wachaga

Wachaga

Kutiman

Siyal Music

Rating: ★★★

Kutiman has a perceptive vision that transforms the everyday into something remarkable. His ThruYou video series cleverly interspersed lo-fi bedroom...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of Solarius Gamma

Solarius Gamma

Ozferti

Humpty Dumpty Records

Rating: ★★

Florian Doucet is a producer, guitarist and graphic designer formerly of Afro-Colombian party starters La Chiva Gantiva, but his masked...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2021

Review of Noche de Carnaval

Noche de Carnaval

Juan Carlos Cáceres

Manana

Rating: ★★★

You have to give Juan Carlos Cáceres credit for productivity – and for effort. No sooner have we let one...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of We are the Halluci Nation

We are the Halluci Nation

A Tribe Called Red

Radicalized Records

Rating: ★★★

A Tribe Called Red are at it again, transforming spiritual pow-wow vocals into slick, at times intense melodies that ride...

Reviewed by Jordan Barnes in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

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