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Review of Miniatures

Miniatures

Ko Shin Moon

Total Totem

Rating: ★★★★

Self-styled ‘musician explorer’ Axel Moon and old friend Niko Shin formed Ko Shin Moon in 2017 after the former had...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: November/2022

Review of The Rough Guide to African Disco

The Rough Guide to African Disco

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network (2 CDs,)

Rating: ★★★

Bursting out of 70s America, with a white-suited Travolta at the helm, disco called the world to dance. Its funk,...

Reviewed by Lilly Pollard in issue: June/2013

Review of All the Way Home

All the Way Home

Cathy Jordan

Top of the World

Blix Street Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Cathy Jordan has stepped out from the front ranks of the band Dervish after more than two decades. Her debut...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2012

Review of Traces

Traces

Karie polwart

Top of the World

Hegri Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Traces is Polwart's fifth studio album and her talent for responsive and emotive lyrics combined with sweet melodies is just...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2012

Review of The Afrosound of Colombia Volume 1

The Afrosound of Colombia Volume 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

17 North Parade VP4162

Rating: ★★★★

Kicking off with a funky, yelping dance track that makes you wonder whether James Brown actually spent the 60s and...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2010

Review of Milton Nascimento: Original Album Series

Milton Nascimento: Original Album Series

Milton Nascimento

Warner Music Brasil

Rating: ★★★

Sensing the way the rapt audience on the live album Amigo (1996) hangs on the singer’s every utterance underlines just...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2013

Review of North Wind

North Wind

Flying Down Thunder & Rise Ashen

Balanced Records Inc.

Rating: ★★★

When Flying Down Thunder and Rise Ashen released their first opus, 2011’s One Nation, with its mix of Aboriginal chants...

Reviewed by Marc Fournier in issue: October/2013

Review of Casa Guilhermina

Casa Guilhermina

Ana Moura

Sony Music Portugal

Rating: ★★★

Rosalía totally changed the flamenco game, redefining the genre for the 21st century. Of course, she promptly crossed the border...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Biyedi

Biyedi

Kerfala Kanté

Sterns

Rating: ★★

With a griot ancestry and over 30 years of records to his name, Kerfala Kanté deserves his high regard in...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2012

Review of Signs

Signs

Vaiteani

Motu Hani

Rating: ★★★★

Following on from their self-titled 2017 debut, the Euro-Polynesian duo Vaiteani is made up of Tahitian singer Vaiteani Teaniniuraitemoana and...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: April/2021

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