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Review of Até ao Fim

Até ao Fim

Katia Guerreiro

KGP Produções

Rating: ★★★

Até ao Fim marks a turning point in Guerreiro's career. But fear not: she's not quit fado. She's not exactly...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of King'n'Doom

King'n'Doom

King'n'Doom

Rustical Records

Rating: ★★★★

The core of King'n'Doom is Czech production and multi-instrumentalist duo Pavel Šmíd and Martin Piro, but the real heart of...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2020

Review of INTEIRA

INTEIRA

Nina Maia

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★

Inteira (meaning whole) was originally released last year on the Seloki label in Brazil, an indie with a terrifically varied...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: October/2025

Review of Antahkarana

Antahkarana

The Three Seas

Earshift Music

Rating: ★★★★★★★★

Titled after a word meaning “inner instrument” in Sanskrit, the new album by Bengali-Australian fusion group The Three Seas is...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: May/2026

Review of From Kolkata

From Kolkata

Tita Nzebi

Bibaka

Rating: ★★★★

For an album with so much variation between and within tracks, the overall cohesion Tita Nzebi achieves in this release...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: November/2019

Review of Carlos Dafé JID025

Carlos Dafé JID025

Carlos Dafé & Adrian Younge

Jazz is Dead

Rating: ★★

Composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Carlos Dafé is something of a legend for his role in the Black Brazil movement of...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2025

Review of Traivellers Joy

Traivellers Joy

Emily Smith

White Fall Records

Rating: ★★★

The young Scottish singer Emily Smith has garnered some high praise over her last few albums, and with this set...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2011

Review of Namaz

Namaz

Baul Meets Saz

Top of the World

Seyir Muzik Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Some musical fusions languish in the superficial, achieving little more than a novel combination of disparate sounds, while others operate...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2018

Review of Worldwize Part 1: North & South

Worldwize Part 1: North & South

Blue King Brown

Lion House

Rating: ★★★★

Having started out as a busking duo in the idyllic surfing town of Byron Bay, Australian roots band Blue King...

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

Review of Mỹ Lai

Mỹ Lai

Kronos Quartet, Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, Rinde Eckert

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★

The Apocalypse Now image on the album cover and the title Mỹ Lai, the name of a terrible massacre of...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/September/2022

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