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Review of Frente Cumbiero meets Mad Professor

Frente Cumbiero meets Mad Professor

Frente Cumbiero meets Mad Professor

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★

Guyana-born dub master Mad Professor certainly gets around. The list of international collaborators he has worked with is pretty exhaustive,...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2012

Review of Ver Tente

Ver Tente

Maria Rita Stumpf

Top of the World

Antares SP

Rating: ★★★★★

The fourth album by Brazilian singer-songwriter Maria Rita Stumpf, Ver Tente, brings together her four decades of musical output. After...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: October/2022

Review of Musical Explorers: Music of Tibet

Musical Explorers: Music of Tibet

Deben Bhattacharya

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

This re-release of archive recordings is a welcome addition to the many Tibetan musical releases recorded in exile since the...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: May/2018

Review of Albion Voice

Albion Voice

Bishi

Gryphon Records

Rating: ★★★★

She's a one-woman show wrapped in the colours of leftfield folk pop, Indian strings, art ensemble music and a broad...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013

Review of Withershins

Withershins

Jamie Dickson

Jamie Dickson

Rating: ★★★★

Withershins is the debut solo album from Glastonbury-based guitarist Jamie Dickson. A homage to British folk guitar legends such as...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: July/2024

Review of Andina: The Sound of the Peruvian Andes, Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia 1968-1978

Andina: The Sound of the Peruvian Andes, Huayno, Carnaval and Cumbia 1968-1978

Various Artists

Tiger''s Milk Records

Rating: ★★★★

It's become fashionable – or at least SEO-savvy – to give records epic subtitles. This album's subtitle is ‘The Sound...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2017

Review of Kulintang Kultura: Danongan Kalanduyan and Gong Music of the Philippine Diaspora

Kulintang Kultura: Danongan Kalanduyan and Gong Music of the Philippine Diaspora

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★

This album is a celebration Danongan Kalanduyan (1947-2016), a musician who migrated to the US in the 1970s from Mindanao...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Cormorant

Cormorant

Nat Brookes

Nat Brookes

Rating: ★★★★

Accordionist Nat Brookes lives on a narrowboat, so has watched many a cormorant and noticed that there's no knowing, when...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2023

Review of Native North America Vol 1: Aboriginal Folk, Rock and Country 1966-1985

Native North America Vol 1: Aboriginal Folk, Rock and Country 1966-1985

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Light in the Attic Records (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★

The lack of respect or choice given to the original inhabitants of the US would have crushed lesser peoples....

Reviewed by James Lascelles in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Music in the Realm of Fireflies: Improvisations for Peace and Healing

Music in the Realm of Fireflies: Improvisations for Peace and Healing

Rhymoi Music

Rating: ★★★

This is meditative music, created by a group of Japanese and Japan-based musicians playing Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Korean, and Mongolian...

Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue:

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