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Review of Tu Na Me Nsa

Tu Na Me Nsa

The Ghana Bigshots

Goethe Institut

Rating: ★★★

The Ghana Bigshots were originally founded as the University of Ghana's house band, and this release is supported by the...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Mountain Songs and Other Stories

Mountain Songs and Other Stories

Maxida Märak & Downhill Bluegrass Band

Limestone House Music

Rating: ★★★★

Sámi activist Maxida Märak usually performs dubstep and hip-hop. But a few years ago she heard Steve Earle's ‘The Mountain’,...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of The Fade in Time

The Fade in Time

Sam Lee & Friends

Top of the World

Nest Collective Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Sam Lee has wandered throughout the UK and Ireland learning songs, and how to sing them, from travellers and Gypsies,...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Neon Fields

Neon Fields

Transkapela

Transkapela

Rating: ★★★

The Polish group Transkapela, led by cimbały (cimbalom) player Robert Wasilewski, has received strong commendations in this magazine for their...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Interloper

Interloper

Tom Kitching

Fellside

Rating: ★★★★

It's intriguing to hear what Kitching, a BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award finalist and member of Pilgrim's Way, is...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Obaa Sima

Obaa Sima

Ata Kak

Awesome Tapes from Africa

Rating: ★★★★

Brian Shimkovitz's label Awesome Tapes from Africa functions as a time capsule in so many brilliant ways. He picks up...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of The Rough Guide to Psychedelic India

The Rough Guide to Psychedelic India

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★

This eclectic collection features established giants such as Asha Bhosle alongside relative unknowns. Opening with a 70s Bollywood number by...

Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Rua da Emenda

Rua da Emenda

António Zambujo

Top of the World

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

Up to this point, António Zambujo had been gradually climbing a ladder that meant both more international recognition, establishing a...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Napot Holdat Csillagot

Napot Holdat Csillagot

Eszter Pál

Fonó Music

Rating: ★★

Pál is a new voice on the traditional Hungarian music scene, endorsed by the Hagyományok Hása (Hungarian Heritage House), the...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Incidents & Accidents

Incidents & Accidents

Dan Walsh

Rooksmere Records

Rating: ★★★

The best tracks on British singer and banjo player Dan Walsh's previous album, The Same but Different, were its solo...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2015

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