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Review of Tortadur

Tortadur

Sevara Nazarkhan

Sevara Music

Rating: ★★★★

Fans of Sevara Nazarkhan's two Real World albums are in for a surprise here – but it is an entirely...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Hotel Univers

Hotel Univers

Jupiter & Okwess International

Top of the World

Out Here Records

Rating: ★★★★★

For someone releasing his debut album, Jupiter Bokondji – the self-styled ‘rebel general’ of Congolese music – has been around...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

Review of The Stray Birds

The Stray Birds

The Stray Birds

Stray Birds

Rating: ★★★

The music of The Stray Birds is derived from the soft, delicate underbelly of the traditional American string band. The...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Máscaras

Máscaras

Mas Aya

Telephone Explosion

Rating: ★★

Mas Aya, aka Brandon Valdivia, is a Toronto-based Canadian-Nicaraguan producer and multi-instrumentalist known in that city for his work with...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2021

Review of Trinca de Ases

Trinca de Ases

Gil, Nando & Gal

Geléia Geral/Altafone

Rating: ★★★

Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and Nando Reis are key figures in MPB (Música Popular Brasileira): Gil and Gal arrived with...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2018

Review of Bollywood Funk Experience

Bollywood Funk Experience

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Nascente NSFUNK003

Rating: ★★★★

To the uninitiated, the richly hued and garish world of Bollywood film soundtracks can seem daunting and inaccessible. Jonny Trunk...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2010

Review of Phantom Songs

Phantom Songs

17 Hippies

Hipster Records

Rating: ★★★

Ten albums and over 1,500 gigs later, the Berliners are still all over the map. When the Iron Curtain was...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2011

Review of Yidishe Lider

Yidishe Lider

Arkady Gendler

Golden Horn Records

Rating: ★★★★

Yidishe Lider is the fruit of an extraordinary project to honour the life and work of Arkady Gendler, who was...

Reviewed by Helen Beer in issue: June/2013

Review of Raghu Dixit

Raghu Dixit

Raghu Dixit

Vishal & Shekhar Music VSMCCR

Rating: ★★★★

Do you wanna feel good? Raghu Dixit does. He has an exuberant optimism that epitomises modern India. While announcing in...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2010

Review of Destiny

Destiny

Abdelli

Zimbraz/Music & Words

Rating: ★★★★

Born in Algeria during the independence war, Abderrahmane Abdelli first came to wider attention with his 1995 Real World album...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2012

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