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Review of Trans-Continental Hustle

Trans-Continental Hustle

Gogol Bordello

Columbia 88697459652

Rating: ★★★

Everyone's favourite Gypsy punk outfit is back with their fifth album and yes, it's another big musical mash-up of klezmer,...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2010

Review of Tariq

Tariq

Jaume Compte & Nafas Ensemble

ARC Music

Rating: ★★

The composer Jaume Compte has explored the music of southern Europe and the Middle East with a number of different...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: June/2015

Review of La Voz Del Mar

La Voz Del Mar

Xiomara Torres

Patois Records

Rating: ★★★

Hailing from Guapi on the Pacific Coast, but residing in Cali, Colombia, Xiomara Torres displays both her traditional roots and...

Reviewed by Jenna Mackle in issue: November/2022

Review of To the Mother of Gods

To the Mother of Gods

Anatolian Weapons & Seirios Savvaidis

Beats in Space VINYL & DIGITAL ONLY

Rating: ★★★

Anatolian Weapons is a guise of DJ electronicist Aggelos Baltas, and Seirios Savvaidis is a singer-songwriter who is much younger...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2019

Review of Thrace: The Paths of Dionysus

Thrace: The Paths of Dionysus

Rodopi Ensemble

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

The Rodopi Ensemble, comprising violin, clarinet, kanun, assorted percussion and lute plus vocals, was formed during the 1990s in this...

Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: April/2019

Review of Songs of Thessaloniki

Songs of Thessaloniki

Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Since the 1990s, Greek soprano Savina Yannatou has established herself as an experimental interpreter of pan-Mediterranean folk songs. Primavera en...

Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: July/2015

Review of Shindu Shi

Shindu Shi

Fadhilee Itulya

Naxos World

Rating: ★★★

On his previous album, Kenyan musician Fadhilee Itulya celebrated the dance music of Western Kenya's Isukha and Idakho communities. His...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2021

Review of Aonair

Aonair

David Munnelly

Appel Rekords

Rating: ★★★★

David Munnelly is a button accordion player whose musical roots in Irish music stretch far, to French, Gypsy, swing and...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2019

Review of Pangea

Pangea

Chet Nuneta

Le Chant du Monde

Rating: ★★★★

Pangea is the hypothetical super¬continent, a land mass without borders, whose break-up gave us the continents we know today. Chet...

Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: March/2012

Review of Tapes of Utopia

Tapes of Utopia

Onipa

Top of the World

Boomerang Records

Rating: ★★★★

This cassette (which is also available as a download, obviously) brims with infectious music, lyrics and a hard-wired utopian variety...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: November/2021

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