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Review of Imaginarium

Imaginarium

Clarice Assad

Top of the World

Adventure Music

Rating: ★★★★

As the daughter of one of the Assad Brothers, a world-beating Brazilian classical guitar duo, it's perhaps no surprise that...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of The Morning Key

The Morning Key

Hatful of Rain

Union Music Store

Rating: ★★★★

Although their 2012 debut, Way on Up the Hill, was impressive enough to garner acclaim from the likes of Bob...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Revival

Revival

Bellowhead

Island Records

Rating: ★★★

Bellowhead's Revival begins, typically, with a couple of sea shanties, ‘Let Her Run’ and ‘Roll Alabama’. The calls and responses...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Baladi Blues Reloaded

Baladi Blues Reloaded

Guy Schalom

Ethnomusic Records

Rating: ★★★★

Baladi music lies at the root of Arab pop music. It's a popular Egyptian style that developed during the 1920s,...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Metta

Metta

Damian Helliwell's Metta

Eigg Records

Rating: ★★★

Damian Helliwell, better known as a member of Gaelic Dàimh, has launched his new project, Metta, in collaboration with a...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Whiskey Cambodia

Whiskey Cambodia

Cambodian Space Project

Metal Postcard

Rating: ★★★

For their third album, Cambodian Space Project have traversed the Pacific and landed in the Motor City, to team up...

Reviewed by Edward Craggs in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Live à L’Étoile

Live à L’Étoile

Dexter Johnson & Le Super Star de Dakar

Teranga Beat

Rating: ★★★★

Although born in Nigeria, saxophonist Dexter Johnson was a seminal figure in Senegalese music. He wound up in pre-independence Dakar...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Tango, Noche y Guitarra

Tango, Noche y Guitarra

Rudi Flores

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

Paris-based Argentinian guitarist Rudi Flores takes standards and classics from tango, chamamé, valse and milonga, and replaces all the busy...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of African Woman

African Woman

Sia Tolno

Top of the World

Lusafrica

Rating: ★★★★

Sia Tolno was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Life for her was no bed of roses: her father was a...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of I’m a Stranger Here

I’m a Stranger Here

The Devil Makes Three

New West Records

Rating: ★★★

If Nirvana had been a rockabilly band from rural Vermont, they would have sounded something like The Devil Makes Three....

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

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