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Review of Palermo Snow

Palermo Snow

John Renbourn

Shanachie

Rating: ★★★★

There's quite a gap between Traveller's Prayer, released in 1998, and this latest album, which Renbourn describes as ‘a departure...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2011

Review of Essential

Essential

Martin Carthy

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★★

To celebrate the 70th birthday of England's foremost folk singer, the country's most original and innovative guitarist and a man...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2011

Review of Remembering Nusrat

Remembering Nusrat

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook

Navras Records

Rating: ★★★★

In 2007, ten years after the death of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, his nephew and disciple Rahat Fateh Ali Khan...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2011

Review of Aquí Los Bravos

Aquí Los Bravos

Michi Sarmiento y su Combo Bravo

Soundway

Rating: ★★★★

Every time a new album comes out of one of Colombia's coastal regions, one fact becomes ever clearer: if it...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2011

Review of Night Nurse: The Best Of

Night Nurse: The Best Of

Gregory Isaacs

Trojan/Spectrum

Rating: ★★★★

Gregory Isaacs, who died at the age of 59 in October last year, was one of the most popular and...

Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: June/2011

Review of Aratan n Azawad

Aratan n Azawad

Terakaft

Top of the World

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

No surprise that Terakaft – the name means ‘caravan’ in Tamasheq – stayed pretty close to the sound of the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2011

Review of Coliseu

Coliseu

Ana Moura

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

In June 2008, following the success of her third studio album, Para Além da Saudade, Ana Moura gave two concerts,...

Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: June/2011

Review of Hungarian World Music: 70s-80s

Hungarian World Music: 70s-80s

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Folk Europa

Rating: ★★★

For anyone interested in Hungarian music, this is a very useful overview of the last 40 years, since the beginning...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2011

Review of Pulling Threads

Pulling Threads

Michelle Burke

Kilcronat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Having earned her spurs with Irish-American powerhouse outfit Cherish the Ladies, East Cork's Michelle Burke ventures out on her own...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2011

Review of Roots of Life

Roots of Life

Los Chicharrons

Tummy Touch Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Here's some Malian-inspired musical innovation from an unlikely source: maverick dance music producers Los Chicharrons, also known as the odd...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2011

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