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Review of Guitarra 66

Guitarra 66

To Trips

Mbari MBARI05

Rating: ★★★★

Best known for his work with Dead Combo, To Trips decided to go temporarily solo and record Guitarra 66. Dead...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Apr/May/2010

Review of Bandua

Bandua

Bandua

Frente Bolivarista

Rating: ★★★

In recent years, Edgar Valente has made a name for himself as a singer with the avant-folk act Criatura. Picking...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2022

Review of Kijombo

Kijombo

Yasser Thejeda & Palotré

Yasser Thejeda & Palotré

Rating: ★★★★

One might start by pointing out that the musicianship on this recording, the second from this joint Dominican and New...

Reviewed by Michael Galea in issue: April/2020

Review of Boka Kafé

Boka Kafé

Tcheka

Tchekamusic

Rating: ★★★★

Manuel Lopes Andrade, better known simply as Tcheka, is a guitarist and singer from Cape Verde, the former Portuguese colony...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2017

Review of Goitse a Thaisce

Goitse a Thaisce

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Skinty Records

Rating: ★★★★

A trip down memory lane, Goitse a Thaisce(Come Here, My Darling) is also a clarion call to the uninitiated to...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2021

Review of Anoura

Anoura

Anansy Cissé

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★

In 2018 the Malian guitarist Anansy Cissé and his band were travelling to a festival in his hometown of Diré...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2021

Review of Sissoko & Sissoko

Sissoko & Sissoko

Ballaké Sissoko & Baba Sissoko

Top of the World

homerecords.be

Rating: ★★★★

Back in the day, Djelimady Sissoko and Madou Sissoko were stalwarts of the National Orchestra of Mali. Eventually their sons,...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2019

Review of Uncensored Folk Music of Austria

Uncensored Folk Music of Austria

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Arhoolie CD 454/455

Rating: ★★★

These are two wonderfully down-home compilations of folk musicians, mainly recorded in Austria by Arhoolie boss Chris Strachwitz in 1967...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2010

Review of Alento

Alento

Danças Ocultas

iPlay

Rating: ★★★

The Portuguese accordion quartet Danças Ocultas describe their instrument of choice as a ‘dream machine’. Ever since they got together...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Cirkari

Cirkari

Zingaros

ARC Music EUCD2266

Rating: ★★★

Zingaros are an Argentinian trio specialising in local interpretations of Gypsy and East European classics. Musicians in Eastern Europe have...

Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: June/2010

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