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Review of Africa Moo Baalu

Africa Moo Baalu

Sousou & Maher Cissoko

ARC Music

Rating: ★★

Africa Moo Baalu means ‘Big People of Africa,’ and the album effectively reads as an open letter to leaders in...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2014

Review of Cool, Calm & Collected

Cool, Calm & Collected

Allan yn y Fan

Steam Pie

Rating: ★★★★★

This compilation brings together the highlights of ten years from these champions of Welsh traditional music. Allan yn y Fan...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2014

Review of Crossharbour

Crossharbour

Crossharbour

Higlet Records

Rating: ★★★

The album cover shows a young five-piece band posed on the ‘blade of light’ Millennium Bridge linking the Tate Modern...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2014

Review of Music from the Source

Music from the Source

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Riverboat Records (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★★

As they celebrate 25 years, this double CD is clear proof that Riverboat Records is Britain’s most prolific and wide-ranging...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2014

Review of OK World

OK World

Bugge Wesseltoft

Jazzland

Rating: ★★★

The clusters of sparse piano notes that open this disc suggest a contemplative acoustic music that might confound fans of...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2014

Review of Les Chansons de Paris

Les Chansons de Paris

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Le Chant du Monde (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★★★

It’s hard to know how to evaluate this item. The subject makes sense. Paris has been much sung about, and...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: June/2014

Review of Libation

Libation

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars

Top of the World

Cumbancha

Rating: ★★★★

A decade after overseeing the sessions for the band’s debut album and supervising the music for the documentary that first...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2014

Review of L’Hijaz Car

L’Hijaz Car

L’Hijaz Car

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

This is a sophisticated, thrilling, inventive disc recorded in Pigalle in Paris and reflecting the diverse musical instruments of the...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: June/2014

Review of Wild Goats & Unmarried Women

Wild Goats & Unmarried Women

She’Koyokh

Top of the World

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★★★

She’Koyokh have carved out a reputation as one of the UK’s brightest world music bands. These young Londoners effortlessly blend...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2014

Review of DJ Click Presents: Click Here, Jaipur Remix Dub

DJ Click Presents: Click Here, Jaipur Remix Dub

VARIOUS ARTISTS

No Fridge

Rating: ★★★

French producer and musical magpie DJ Click turns his gaze upon the Rajasthani city of Jaipur on this global beats...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2014

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