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Review of Humanicity

Humanicity

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & ERM

ERM

Rating: ★★

The Upsetter is back, and this time he's wearing a curly yellow clown's wig and sounding as if he's left...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of 968 CR13

968 CR13

Massilia Sound System

Le Chant du Monde

Rating: ★★★★

Massilia Sound System surged out of the 80s underground party scene in Marseille. They're the group that pretty much single-handedly...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2013

Review of Drawing in an Almond

Drawing in an Almond

Katerina Papadopoulou

Golden Horn

Rating: ★★★

Greek singer Katerina Papadopoulou was previously unknown to me, but due diligence proves it's been my oversight. This album was...

Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: Apr/May/2014

Review of Essencia

Essencia

Madredeus

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★★

What’s good about the newly reformed and reinvented Madredeus is that they sound so much like the Madredeus of old....

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of Awakening

Awakening

Spiritual

Oufah Music/VP Records

Rating: ★★★

Listening to ‘Black Man Story’, the opening track, is like stepping back to the 1970s, so evocative are the vocal...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2017

Review of The Inner Indian

The Inner Indian

Hélène Brunet & Nicola Hayes

Coop Breizh

Rating: ★★★★

This is a duo with a difference: Nicola Hayes is an Australian fiddler who has settled in Brittany and teamed...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2017

Review of Quinto

Quinto

Antonio Zambujo

Top of the World

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

Little by little, Antonio Zambujo has been expanding his musical universe up to the point where it doesn't really matter...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Homage to Nazım Hikmet

Homage to Nazım Hikmet

Tülay German & François Rabbath

Zehra

Rating: ★★★★

Poet, playwright and novelist Nazım Hikmet has cast a huge shadow over Turkish culture for a century. A pioneer of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2022

Review of Ayó

Ayó

The Garifuna Collective

Cumbancha Records

Rating: ★★★★

Many Songlines readers will remember Andy Palacio, whose 2007 album Wàtina has become as much a classic for Belizean music...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: October/2013

Review of Respeitosa Mente

Respeitosa Mente

Ricardo Ribeiro

Warner Music Portugal

Rating: ★★★★

Although there is no obvious trace of Lebanese oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil in Respeitosa Mente, it is hard to imagine...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: November/2019

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