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Review of Cicada

Cicada

Hazmat Modine

Jaro

Rating: ★★★★

As someone once noted, if you haven’t heard them, it’s hard to describe what Hazmat Modine do, but if you...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Sport and Play

Sport and Play

James Findlay

Fellside Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

This is an austere and sparse collection of ballads from the fresh¬faced young singer, guitarist and fiddler who picked up...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Concert Program

Concert Program

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Penguin Cafe

Rating: ★★★

The orchestra that was the fruit of a feverish, food-poisoned dream in the south of France in the early 1970s...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Balkan Brass Battle

Balkan Brass Battle

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Asphalt Tango

Rating: ★★★★

Any visitor to the Guča festival will have witnessed the raucous spectacle of two sweat-soaked brass bands angrily trying to...

Reviewed by Joe Walker in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Malk

Malk

Saltwater Band

Skinnyfish

Rating: ★★★★

Given the pheno¬menal international success of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunu-pingu's 2008 solo album, the blind Aboriginal singer's earlier work has sometimes...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Take The High Road

Take The High Road

Blind Boys of Alabama

Saguaro Road

Rating: ★★★

There’s an obvious parallel between the Blind Boys of Alabama and South Africa’s Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Both are veteran vocal...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Noche de Carnaval

Noche de Carnaval

Juan Carlos Cáceres

Manana

Rating: ★★★

You have to give Juan Carlos Cáceres credit for productivity – and for effort. No sooner have we let one...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Toumastin

Toumastin

Tamikrest

Top of the World

Glitterhouse Records

Rating: ★★★★★

These are hard times for the Tamashek people, as Andy Morgan, former manager of the mighty Tinariwen, makes distressingly clear...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of Mechanical Monster

Mechanical Monster

Monster Ceilidh Band

Dave's Flat Records

Rating: ★★★★

With lots of funk and zing to move all butts to the floor, the Monster Ceilidh Band remind us that...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of From the Kasbah/Tunis to Tahrir Square/Cairo & Back

From the Kasbah/Tunis to Tahrir Square/Cairo & Back

VARIOUS ARTiSTS

Network Medien

Rating: ★★★

It was, so they say, a very musical revolution. How could it have been anything else? Even under the most...

Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

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