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Review of Dois Selos e um Carimbo

Dois Selos e um Carimbo

Deolinda

Top of the World

World Connection WC 43088

Rating: ★★★★

How can you top a debut album that has spent over 100 weeks in the Portuguese charts, powered by the...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2010

Review of Manginburru Bininj

Manginburru Bininj

Wildflower

Skinnyfish Music SFWF090604

Rating: ★★★

An Aboriginal band from the remote Arnhem Land outstation of Mama-dawerre, Wildflower are following the musical path pioneered by their...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2010

Review of Forecast

Forecast

The Old Dance School

Top of the World

Transition Records TRANSCD04

Rating: ★★★★★

Anyone who likes hand-crafted folk music, dramatic pop songs and excellent musicianship is in for a special treat. The Old...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: October/2010

Review of Putan de Cançon

Putan de Cançon

Moussu T e lei Jovents

Manivette 274 1877

Rating: ★★★

The latest album by the neo-troubadours of Marseille, or to be more precise, the adjacent port of La Ciotat, opens...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2010

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 Rendez-vous Barbès

Rendez-vous Barbès

Orchestre National de Barbès

Top of the World

Le Chant du Monde 2741878

Rating: ★★★★

The opening number, ‘Sidi Yahia-bnef Paris’, effortlessly mixes elements of Gnawa trance with a low-slung growling rock riff that The...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2010

Review of Aguilas and Cobras

Aguilas and Cobras

Brownout

Six Degrees Records 6570361162

Rating: ★★★

Stateside Latin funk often comes with psychedelic guitar chords, sexy vocals, big slabs of Yankee rock weirdness, and hot rhythms...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2010

Review of La Peña

La Peña

Santaires, El Filón & Roberto Caldo

Winter & Winter 910 163-2

Rating: ★★

While the city of Buenos Aires boasts a couple of dedi¬cated FM tango music channels, its province – a huge...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2010

Review of Capture: 1995-2010

Capture: 1995-2010

Afro Celt Sound System

Real World CDRW179

Rating: ★★★★

Love them or loathe them – and they do tend to polarise opinion – Afro Celt Sound System prompted a...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2010

Review of Diversions

Diversions

Dàimh

Greentrax CDTRAX343

Rating: ★★★★

Based in the Scottish Highlands, but with a line-up also drawn from California, Cape Breton and Ireland, Dàimh (pronounced ‘dive’,...

Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: October/2010

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