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Review of The Next Generation

The Next Generation

Groundation

Baco Records

Rating: ★★★

Groundation are a reggae group who formed at Sonoma State University in 1998. The original members were all studying jazz...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2018

Review of Cruzando Borders

Cruzando Borders

Los Texmaniacs

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

The Grammy-winning Los Texmaniacs play music that celebrates the people and places of the Texas-Mexico borderlands: corridos, boleros and less...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2018

Review of Migrants

Migrants

Mário Lúcio

Media Sounds

Rating: ★★★★

Lúcio is a seminal character in Cape Verdean culture, a singer, composer, poet, novelist, playwright, painter and politician who spent...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2023

Review of Pretty Peggy

Pretty Peggy

Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys

Navigator Records

Rating: ★★★

The second album from the Cornish-based singer, Britain's Got Talent finalist and BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner develops the...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2017

Review of Mulher do Norte

Mulher do Norte

Claudia Aurora

Red Orange Recordings

Rating: ★★★

There is hardly a greater challenge to any fadista than addressing the immaculate and unbeatable Amália Rodrigues’ repertoire. Amália cannot...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: July/2016

Review of The Other Side of the Air

The Other Side of the Air

Jayme Stone

Jayme Stone

Rating: ★★★★

Canadian Jayme Stone can count his banjo playing as being just the beginning of a host of achievements on this...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: March/2014

Review of Astar

Astar

Breabach

Top of the World

Breabach Records

Rating: ★★★★

Astar, meaning distance or journey, is a fitting title for Breabach's new album. Incorporating influences, and guests, from all around...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2016

Review of Sibling Revelry

Sibling Revelry

The Casey Sisters

Old Bridge Music

Rating: ★★★★

Multi-instrumental sisters three, Máire and Mairéad Ní Chathasaigh and Nollaig Casey all have long, illustrious solo careers behind them. Here...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of Greatest Jamaican Beat

Greatest Jamaican Beat

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Cherry Red Records

Rating: ★★★★

Two Duke Reid-produced collections have been offset here to create a killer introduction to rocksteady reggae. The first, Greatest Jamaica...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2019

Review of Edu Na Ka Vou

Edu Na Ka Vou

Vou

voufiji.com

Rating: ★★★

Founded in 2007 as a contemporary dance company, the ambitious group Vou (meaning ‘new’ in Fijian) have now attempted to...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2011

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