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Review of Countryman

Countryman

Frank Yamma

Top of the World

Wantok Musik

Rating: ★★★★★

Considered by many to be one of Australia's most expressive indigenous voices, Pitjantjatjara singer-songwriter Frank Yamma, has never enjoyed the...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of School of life

School of life

Daara J Family

Top of the World

Wrasse 262

Rating: ★★★★

All great family stories are marked by rivalry and conflict as well as profound coherence. The last seven years in...

Reviewed by Katharina Lobeck Kane in issue: July/2010

Review of Systema Solar

Systema Solar

Systema Solar

Chusma

Rating: ★★★★

Colombia continues to be one of the most exciting music-producing nations in Latin America. The birthplace of cumbia, the country...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Shoshan

Shoshan

Shye Ben-Tzur

Top of the World

EarthSync ES0036

Rating: ★★★★

Ready for something new and exciting? How about qawwali (Sufi devotional song), Rajasthani folk singing, Indian classical music, flamenco and...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2010

Review of Di Corsica Riposu; Requiem pour Deux Regards

Di Corsica Riposu; Requiem pour Deux Regards

A Filetta

Deda

Rating: ★★★★

Corsica In Repose; A Requiem of Two Visions is the album's title; looking both ways is the essence of what...

Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Panic Grass & Fever Few

Panic Grass & Fever Few

Ian King

Top of the World

Fledg’ling FLED3082

Rating: ★★★★

Ian King of England – it has an old–money ring to it – is a Barnsley–born singer and stonewaller. The...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2010

Review of MTMTMK

MTMTMK

The Very Best

Top of the World

Moshi Moshi

Rating: ★★★★★

The combination of the Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya and the London-based electro production team Radioclit made The Very Best's debut...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of Corazón

Corazón

Santana

Sony Music

Rating: ★★★★

The Latin-rock hybrid Carlos Santana created in the late 60s was world music 20 years before the term became common...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2014

Review of Studio 105

Studio 105

Mayra Andrade

Sterns

Rating: ★★★

Mayra Andrade has released just two albums:her spellbinding and multi award-winning 2006 debut Navega and its lusher 2010 follow-up Stória...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Laroyê

Laroyê

Àbáse

Top of the World

Oshu Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This debut album by Hungarian producer and multi-instrumentalist Szabolcs Bognár (aka Àbáse) is exactly what its title means in the...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: December/2021

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