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Review of Devla (Blown Away To Dancefloor Heaven)

Devla (Blown Away To Dancefloor Heaven)

Boban i Marko MarkoviC Orkestar

Piranha CDPIR 2339

Rating: ★★★★

Boban Markovic, one of European music’s top trumpet players, has been playing explosive Balkan Gypsy tunes for longer than almost...

Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: March/2010

Review of Übersee

Übersee

La Brass Banda

Top of the World

Full Price

Rating: ★★★★★

The Süddeutsche funkateers are back with a bang. For those listeners who were lucky enough to stumble across last year's...

Reviewed by Lemez Lovas in issue: March/2010

Review of Friends & Family of Hawai’i

Friends & Family of Hawai’i

Amy Hanaiali’i

Mountain Apple URCD8634

Rating: ★★

With four Grammy nominations and numerous local awards to her credit, vocalist Amy Hanaiali’i Gilliom is Hawaii’s best-selling female artist....

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2010

Review of Dreams of Andalusia

Dreams of Andalusia

Joglaresa

Metronome METCD1062

Rating: ★★★

It was only a couple of issues ago that Joglaresa’s Dancing in Tetouan was reviewed in Songlines (#62) and it...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: March/2010

Review of Qin: Celestial Music for Qin and Xiao

Qin: Celestial Music for Qin and Xiao

Deng Hong & Chen Shasha

Caprice Records CAP21818

Rating: ★★★★

The qin has a small but fanatical following, both in China and abroad. This is the seven-string zither that appears...

Reviewed by Rowan Pease in issue: March/2010

Review of Volume 2: Echos Hypnotiques

Volume 2: Echos Hypnotiques

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou

Analog Africa AACD066

Rating: ★★★★

From latter-day obscurity to the plush aisles of London’s Barbican, the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo story is a typically colourful one, with...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2010

Review of Yatra: Nomadic Souls

Yatra: Nomadic Souls

Kailash Kher & Kailasa

Cumbancha CMBCD14

Rating: ★★

I’d better come clean straightaway and say that I had trouble with this disc. Kailash Kher is a big star...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: March/2010

Review of A Mãe

A Mãe

Rodrigo Leão & Cinema Ensemble

Sony BMG/Difference Music 88697555672

Rating: ★★★

Since his days with Madredeus, it has been difficult to fit Rodrigo Leão’s music into any particular category. Whilst remaining...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2010

Review of De Momento

De Momento

Lolaimon

Ventilador CDA067

Rating: ★★★

Ventilador has become a platform for mestizo music, a distinctive Spanish melange of flamenco strains, Latin American rhythms, jazz tropes,...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2010

Review of Handmade Life

Handmade Life

Chris Wood

Top of the World

RUF RUFCD012

Rating: ★★★★

To illustrate the lyrical and incisive dissection of public ills and private graces that is Handmade Life, the album‘s artwork...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2010

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