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Review of Loudon Live in London

Loudon Live in London

Loudon Wainwright III

The Last Music Company

Rating: ★★★

An excellent overview of the six-decade-long career of one of America’s preeminent (and funniest) troubadours. Recorded during a three-night stand...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2025

Review of Calling

Calling

Jemima Thewes

Last Night From Glasgow

Rating: ★★★★

It is heartening when a thing of beauty emerges following an existential threat: this album is a case in point....

Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: July/2022

Review of Calm Abiding: Guided Meditations & Sacred Buddhist Prayers

Calm Abiding: Guided Meditations & Sacred Buddhist Prayers

Tashi Lhunpo Monks

30ips

Rating: ★★★★

Calm Abiding is a timely collaboration between the Tashi Lhunpo Monks and meditation expert Shan Tate. The first three tracks,...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: November/2019

Review of Helen Nkume & Her Young Timers Band

Helen Nkume & Her Young Timers Band

Helen Nkume

Dig This Way Records

Rating: ★★★

Helen Nkume was approaching her thirties when she began her musical career in the early 1970s. Before the decade was...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2023

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

Review of Maestros del Joropo Oriental: ¡Y Que Viva Venezuela!

Maestros del Joropo Oriental: ¡Y Que Viva Venezuela!

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Smithsonian Folkways SFWCD40551

Rating: ★★★★

Venezuela is more than Hugo Chavez, the Bolivarian revolution, Gustavo Dudamel and the Orchestra Simon Bolivar. Yet all have contributed...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2010

Review of Best of Lura

Best of Lura

Lura

Lusafrica

Rating: ★★★★★

Proof that the Cape Verde renaissance has come of age, this anthology confirms Lura as her own generation’s elder stateswoman,...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2011

Review of Ergo

Ergo

Zhen Chen

Navona Records

Rating: ★★

Piano wunderkind Zhen Chen has an ambitious mission: to forge a new style of music that chimes with a generation...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Review of El Terreno

El Terreno

Jacob Gurevitsch

Music for Dreams

Rating: ★★

Jacob Gurevitsch makes sure to stress he is not a flamenco musician – in spite of often being presented as...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2024

Review of Benin Awake Vol 1

Benin Awake Vol 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Sheer Sound

Rating: ★★

Masterminded by Sheer Publishing, better known for placing African-authored songs in homegrown films like Tsotsi and District 9, this triumvirate...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2013

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