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Review of Two Score

Two Score

Blowzabella

Blowzabella

Rating: ★★★

Now entering their fifth decade, albeit with a lengthy 1990s hiatus included, and having undergone numerous line-up changes, the current...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018

Review of Rangeele

Rangeele

Kailash Kher

Saregama

Rating: ★★★

Rangeele is Kailash Kher's fourth album with the band Kailasa, which he set up with brothers Paresh and Naresh Kamath...

Reviewed by Kulbir Natt in issue: June/2012

Review of Live at Perthshire Amber

Live at Perthshire Amber

Julie Fowlis

Machair Records

Rating: ★★★

Julie Fowlis is now a fine ambassador for the music, song and culture of her Outer Hebridean homeland and this...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Rwanda, You Should be Loved

Rwanda, You Should be Loved

The Good Ones

Anti- Records

Rating: ★★★★

This recording – which was created on the farm of bandleader Adrien Kazigira and whittles 40 of his compositions down...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of True North

True North

Phillip Henry

Top of the World

Dragonfly Roots

Rating: ★★★★

Ten years ago, Phillip Henry (best known as one half of the award-winning Devon folk duo, Edgelarks, with Hannah Martin)...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2019

Review of Revolt for Change

Revolt for Change

Ebo Krdum

Epidemic Sound

Rating: ★★★

After his 2021 Top of the World album Diversity, Ebo Krdum has followed up with two albums for the royalty-free...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2023

Review of Congolese Funk, Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978

Congolese Funk, Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978

Verckys et L’Orchestre Vévé

Top of the World

Analog Africa

Rating: ★★★★★

You have to hand it to Frankfurt-based label Analog Africa. The fuel on which it runs is a passionate obsession...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: March/2015

Review of Courage

Courage

Mamadou Diabate

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

Malian kora (harp-lute) player Mamadou Diabate is still only in his mid-30s but has racked up a stack of excellent...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Davorio

Davorio

Samuele Strufaldi

Musica Macondo

Rating: ★★★★

In 2019 the Italian composer and jazz musician Samuele Strufaldi was invited by djembé player Boris Pierrou to visit his...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2023

Review of Africatown, AL Ancestor Sounds

Africatown, AL Ancestor Sounds

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Freedirt

Rating: ★★★

After all Ian Brennan’s field recordings of mostly non-professional musicians and singers recorded around the world from Rwanda to Romania...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024

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