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Review of Cape Verde: An Archipelago of Music

Cape Verde: An Archipelago of Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ocoia Radio Fiance

Rating: ★★★★

The Ocora label specialises in field recordings of music from around the world. This release is a double CD of...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: July/2020

Review of Voices of Ashkenaz

Voices of Ashkenaz

Voices of Ashkenaz

CPL Music

Rating: ★★★

This is a fascinating recording that evolved out of the Yiddish Summer Weimar festival, which unites serious Jewish music research...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2017

Review of Alborotá

Alborotá

Alea

Alea Music

Rating: ★★★

Alborotá (meaning loud, rowdy, riotous in the feminine form) is an album created to explore notions of strength, perseverance, feminism...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: November/2021

Review of Kambek (I Lilikun Mulai)

Kambek (I Lilikun Mulai)

George Telek

Wantok Musik

Rating: ★★★★

George Mamua Telek MBE has long been a music legend in Papua New Guinea. His fame stems from his time...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Havana-Paris-Dakar

Havana-Paris-Dakar

Alune Wade & Harold López-Nussa

World Village

Rating: ★★★

The Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa and the Senegalese singer and bass player Alune Wade came together in Havana in late...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2015

Review of Little Hinges

Little Hinges

Qristina & Quinn Bachand

Beacon Ridge Productions

Rating: ★★★★

Structured in two parts, Qristina and Quinn Bachand's third album finds the Canadian siblings on a mission to broaden the...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: November/2015

Review of The Seventh Wave

The Seventh Wave

Skipinnish

Skipinnish

Rating: ★★★★

If you were lucky enough to witness Skipinnish at Celtic Connections in 2016, at a Glasgow Royal Concert Hall packed...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: August/2017

Review of Amber Sands

Amber Sands

Claudia Schwab

Claudia Schwab

Rating: ★★★

An Ireland-based, Austrian-born fiddle player and composer, Schwab's solo debut comes after globe-hopping collaborations with the likes of Austrian string...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2014

Review of Kologo

Kologo

Alostmen

Top of the World

Strut

Rating: ★★★★

Stevo Atambire is already a big deal in Ghana, a streetboy-turned-pop star whose local releases are full of synths and...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2021

Review of Noongar Wonderland

Noongar Wonderland

Maatakitj (feat Paul Mac)

Maatakitj

Rating: ★★★★

Maatakitj (pronounced ‘mart-a-key-tch’ and translated as ‘long legs like a spear’) is the nickname of West Australian musician Clint Bracknell,...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2022

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