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Review of Les Rives

Les Rives

Titi Robin

Naive

Rating: ★★★★

There’s a history to this project. The prolific guitarist Titi Robin has long collaborated with Gypsy, Indian, and qawwali artists....

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2012

Review of Music for the Hawaiian Islands Vol 3: Pi’ilani Maui

Music for the Hawaiian Islands Vol 3: Pi’ilani Maui

Kuana Torres Kahele

Mountain Apple

Rating: ★★★★

The third volume of Kuana Torres Kahele's six-part CD series celebrating the musical spirit of individual Hawaiian Islands continues the...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan	 in issue: July/2015

Review of Cumbia! Bestial

Cumbia! Bestial

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Chusma Records

Rating: ★★★★

This thrilling compilation offers a truly cross-continental perspective, bringing together cutting-edge remixes of cumbia by DJs from Bogotá, Mexico and...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: October/2011

Review of Mali Latino

Mali Latino

Alex Wilson, Madou Sidiki Diabaté & Ahmed Fofana

Top of the World

Alex Wilson Records

Rating: ★★★★

British-born Renaissance man Alex Wilson has sweated buckets over this project, which sees him fusing Mande and Afro-Latin sounds with...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Nemo

Nemo

Kadialy Kouyate

Top of the World

KK Sound Archive

Rating: ★★★★

Kadialy Kouyate is a Longtime London-based kora player. A maestro of the West African 21-string harp-Lute, he is also a...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2020

Review of Gakondo

Gakondo

The Mighty Popo

Borealis Records

Rating: ★★★★

This is the fifth album from Canada-based Jacques ‘Popo’ Muri-gande, a singer and guitarist from Rwanda born in a Burundian...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2012

Review of This Is Funkiwala

This Is Funkiwala

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

Funkiwala

Rating: ★★★★★

London-based record label Funkiwala is a global music treasure trove, a spiritual and (hopefully) commercial home for the best and...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2022

Review of Into the Well

Into the Well

The Poozies

Schmooz Records

Rating: ★★★

It is surely a testament to the staying power of The Poozies that, although the all-female British folk group formed...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2015

Review of Sacred Words

Sacred Words

Manika Kaur

Manika Music

Rating: ★★★

Australian-born Manika Kaur is a singer of shabad-kirtan, verses from the Sikh Holy scriptures consisting of poetry written by the...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2018

Review of Abrazo

Abrazo

Vincent Peirani

Top of the World

ACT

Rating: ★★★★

Warm, tango-inspired runnings from the Paris-based duo of accordionist Vincent Peirani and soprano saxophonist Emile Parisien, whose palpable rapport has...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2020

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