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Review of Sheema

Sheema

Sheema Mukherjee

ECC Records

Rating: ★★★

A veteran of Transglobal Underground and Imagined Village, the British sitar player Mukherjee has released her first solo album in...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Fofoulah

Fofoulah

Fofoulah

Top of the World

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

With solid roots in West African sabar drumming, Fofoulah blend multiple genres to create a complex fusion of modern pop,...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Marshall Allen Presents Sun Ra & His Arkestra: In the Orbit of Ra

Marshall Allen Presents Sun Ra & His Arkestra: In the Orbit of Ra

Sun Ra

Strut

Rating: ★★★★★

This is a real treat. If you’re not familiar with Sun Ra then you are missing out on one of...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Real World 25

Real World 25

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Real World began life in 1989 with Passion, the soundtrack to Martin Scorsese's movie The Last Temptation of Christ, scored...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Tango

Tango

Yasmin Levy

World Village

Rating: ★★

You may well be apprehensive about hearing this. Israeli singer Yasmin Levy has a dramatic style that really suits the...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Between the Shadow and the Soul

Between the Shadow and the Soul

Anna Phoebe

Anna Phoebe Music

Rating: ★★★

Violinist Anna Phoebe is a rock and commercial music veteran best known as a member of progressive rock outfit Trans-Siberian...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Welcome Marhaba

Welcome Marhaba

Zen Zila

Kamiyad Records

Rating: ★★

Soldiering on, decades after the demise of role models Carte de Sejour (Rachid Taha's old band), Zen Zila is perhaps...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Goshawk

Goshawk

Carole Pegg & Radik Tülüsh

7 Stars Records

Rating: ★★

Here's an intriguing prospect. Radik Tülüsh, an esteemed Tuvan throat singer and a member of the long-running group Huun Huur...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Lolo

Lolo

Soneros All Stars

Sóneros Records

Rating: ★★★★

There is no way you are going to be able to sit still when listening to Swedish producer Jan Bogdan...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Review of La Rumba SoYo

La Rumba SoYo

Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca

Top of the World

Cumbancha

Rating: ★★★★

This is the sixth album (excluding a retrospective compilation) of Ricardo Lemvo's Afro-Cuban music – a blend of salsa with...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

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