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Review of Weapon of Choice

Weapon of Choice

Airileke

Top of the World

Wantok Musik

Rating: ★★★★

Airileke Ingram is a Melbourne-based percussionist/producer who's been omnipresent in the Australian world music scene since the mid-90s. Raised in...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of London’s Calling

London’s Calling

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Culture Clash

Rating: ★★★

The two weeks of sport at the core of the London Olympics seem to have spawned a summer-long fiesta of...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of Ora

Ora

Wai

Top of the World

Jayrem Records CDJAY416

Rating: ★★★★★

It's taken New Zealand Maori outfit Wai a full ten years to record a follow-up album to their groundbreaking 2000...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2010

Review of Ar Puro

Ar Puro

Super Mama Djombo

Smekkleysa SM148

Rating: ★★★

The music of Guinea-Bissau – a tiny wedge of mangroves and jungle hidden between the borders of Senegal and Guinea...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2010

Review of Future Trad Collective

Future Trad Collective

Future Trad Collective

Vertical Records

Rating: ★★★

The Future Trad Collective's music has the aura of a mighty jam session. The creation of three musicians who all...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2011

Review of Beginner’s Guide to the Caribbean

Beginner’s Guide to the Caribbean

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Nascente

Rating: ★★★★

In a compilation¬exhausted market, do we need yet another Caribbean greatest hits set? The short answer would be no, unless...

Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of Classical Bhajans

Classical Bhajans

Swamy Haridhos

Country & Eastern

Rating: ★★★

A charismatic leader, preacher and singer of bhajans (Hindu devotional hymns) Swamy Haridhos has evolved a musical style which combines...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Da Hora

Da Hora

Vitto Meirelles

Cooking Vinyl

Rating: ★★★

The ten seconds of ghostly harmonium that comprises this album's prelude comes courtesy of iconic French actor Denis Lavant (as...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2019

Review of Total Reggae: Chart Hits

Total Reggae: Chart Hits

VARIOUS ARTISTS

VP Records (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★

Total Reggae enters the Jamaican compilation market at the post-rocksteady age, choosing to dedicate the majority of its series to...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2013

Review of In a Hoary Winter’s Night

In a Hoary Winter’s Night

Joglaresa

Joglaresa

Rating: ★★★

Joglaresa’s fifth album is a selection of ‘Irish and English Songs of Wintertide’. There is a wi de ra n...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

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