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Review of En Vivo en el Norte: In Concert

En Vivo en el Norte: In Concert

Salsa Celtica

Discos León DSLCD002

Rating: ★★★★

Fifteen years have flown by since Scottish musician Toby Shippey and a group of Edinburgh-based musician friends began fusing Latin...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: July/2010

Review of Raghu Dixit

Raghu Dixit

Raghu Dixit

Vishal & Shekhar Music VSMCCR

Rating: ★★★★

Do you wanna feel good? Raghu Dixit does. He has an exuberant optimism that epitomises modern India. While announcing in...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2010

Review of Hedzoleh

Hedzoleh

Hedzoleh Soundz

Soundway SNDWCD019

Rating: ★★★★

Ghana’s Hedzoleh Soundz – an aggregate of rock musicians and members of the Ghanaian Arts Council’s traditional music troupe –...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2010

Review of School of life

School of life

Daara J Family

Top of the World

Wrasse 262

Rating: ★★★★

All great family stories are marked by rivalry and conflict as well as profound coherence. The last seven years in...

Reviewed by Katharina Lobeck Kane in issue: July/2010

Review of Natural Angle

Natural Angle

Gráda

Compass Records 745282

Rating: ★★★★

Nearing the end of their first decade together, Gráda have returned to the recording studio for the first time since...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2010

Review of Samba Carioca

Samba Carioca

Vinicius Cantuaria

Naïve WN145181

Rating: ★★★

Vinicius Cantuaria has been producing finely crafted, softly sung, smoky bossa nova records since he left Brazil for New York...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: July/2010

Review of Mambo Ska

Mambo Ska

Ska Cubano

Top of the World

Casino Sounds CAS20102

Rating: ★★★★

Long awaited (not least by themselves) the release of the third album from the Anglo-Cuban entertainment innovators follows colourful reports...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: July/2010

Review of Mansana Blues

Mansana Blues

Diabel Cissokho & Ramon Goose

DixieFrog DFGCD8683

Rating: ★★★

British blues guitarist Ramon Goose and Senegalese kora (harp-lute) player Diabel Cissokho have teamed up here on a kora-blues album...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: July/2010

Review of Next Stop… Soweto Vol 2: Soul, Funk & Organ Grooves from the Townships 1969-76

Next Stop… Soweto Vol 2: Soul, Funk & Organ Grooves from the Townships 1969-76

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Strut 057

Rating: ★★★★

All credit to compilers Duncan Brooker and Francis Gooding, for what they have done with this unusual and fascinating comp¬ilation...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2010

Review of Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits

Bebo Valdés

Son Records 170400

Rating: ★★★

Bebo Valdés became famous in the 21st century as the Cuban emigré pianist who recorded Lágrimas Negras, the stunning 2002...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: July/2010

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