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Review of Frente Cumbiero meets Mad Professor

Frente Cumbiero meets Mad Professor

Frente Cumbiero meets Mad Professor

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★

Guyana-born dub master Mad Professor certainly gets around. The list of international collaborators he has worked with is pretty exhaustive,...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2012

Review of Bituca – The Definitive Collection

Bituca – The Definitive Collection

Milton Nascimento

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★

Definitive collections inevitably upset someone, and any attempt to sum up Milton Nascimento’s 45-year career in two CDs will be...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2012

Review of Teï Molo

Teï Molo

Anyango

Jowi Music

Rating: ★★★

Not only is she the world’s only Japanese, female player of the nyatiti (an eight-stringed instrument from Kenya), but Anyango...

Reviewed by Alex Petropoulos in issue: March/2012

Review of Victor Menace!!!

Victor Menace!!!

Victor Menace

River Rat Records

Rating: ★★★

Victor Menace sounds like a cartoon debt collector but is in fact Ruth Theodore’s new band. Her previous album, White...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2012

Review of Acadian All Star Special

Acadian All Star Special

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Bear Family

Rating: ★★★★

What a beautifully packaged project this is: a large box housing three CDs and a hardback book full of rare...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2012

Review of +samba

+samba

Aleh

Biscoito Fino

Rating: ★★★

Sharply dressed and sporting a modest knot of dreads, Aleh Ferreira is a singer-songwriter firmly in the Seu Jorge mould...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2012

Review of Life in a Day OST

Life in a Day OST

VARIOUS ARTISTS

EMI Records

Rating: ★★

Soundtracks are funny old things. When they feature alongside a film, they make sense – they’re doing precisely what they’re...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2012

Review of Aye

Aye

Martyn Bennett

Top of the World

Cuillin Music

Rating: ★★★★★

Martyn Bennett, a native of St Johns, Newfoundland, who grew up in Speyside with his mother, the singer and folklorist...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2012

Review of Nos Quintais do Mundo

Nos Quintais do Mundo

DJ Tudo

Mundo Melhor

Rating: ★★★★

Perhaps DJ Tudo should change his name, or at least that deceptive prefix of his, for it hides the fact...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2012

Review of Multishow Ao Vivo

Multishow Ao Vivo

Caetano Veloso & Maria Gadu

Multishow

Rating: ★★★★

Whilst they have somewhat fallen out of fashion in Europe and the US, ‘unplugged’ performances by major domestic talents have...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2012

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