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Review of Who's Feeling Young Now?

Who's Feeling Young Now?

Punch Brothers

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★

Their cover version of ‘Kid A’ makes it explicit, but the Punch Brothers’ indie-band influences are immediately obvious right from...

Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Apr/May/2012

Review of Playing For Change II: Songs Around The World

Playing For Change II: Songs Around The World

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Hear Music

Rating: ★★★

Reviewing well-mean¬ing musical projects designed to raise money for worthwhile charities can be a critic’s nightmare. More often than not...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2012

Review of Distant Mountains

Distant Mountains

Wu Man & Wu Wei

Dreyer Gaido

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded live in concert at the Morgenland Festival in Osnabrück, Germany, Distant Mountains is an album of duets by Chinese...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2021

Review of ¡Soy Salvadoreño!

¡Soy Salvadoreño!

Los Hermanos Lovos

Smithsonian Folkways

Rating: ★★★

For their latest musical discovery Smithsonian Folkways have unearthed Los Hermanos Lovos and their chanchona style of music from the...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2012

Review of Skyscrapers & Deities

Skyscrapers & Deities

Kouyaté-Neerman

No Format!

Rating: ★★★★

There have been plenty of well-meaning summit meetings over the years between West African and European musicians, partnerships that have...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: March/2012

Review of Tolika Mtoliki

Tolika Mtoliki

The Brother Moves On

Matsuli Music Limited

Rating: ★★★★★

A dozen years after forming as a performance art and music ensemble in Johannesburg, The Brother Moves On releases one...

Reviewed by Diane Coetzer in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Conscription

Conscription

The Sexican

Math Records

Rating: ★★★

The deranged frontman known only as Mike H led his motley Danish crew The Sexican across their debut album The...

Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: July/2013

Review of 10 Anos nas Asas do Fado

10 Anos nas Asas do Fado

Kátia Guerreiro

JBJ/Vice Versa

Rating: ★★★

When you think about it, ten years isn’t that long. But it’s been arguably enough time for Kátia Guerreiro to...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

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 Out of Sight

Out of Sight

Kroke

Top of the World

Oriente RIENCD74

Rating: ★★★★

The Polish trio Kroke formed back in 1992 and started playing Jewish klezmer in their home city of Krakow –...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2010

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