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Review of Dendere Ngoma (Music Nest)

Dendere Ngoma (Music Nest)

Spirit Talk Mbira feat. Chartwell Dutiro

Ingoma

Rating: ★★★★

A promoter in Holland had booked [Spirit Talk Mbira] thinking that the band was full of African people ‘ recalls...

Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Watching the Well

Watching the Well

Jon Thorne & Danny Thompson

Naim

Rating: ★★★★

Naim is a jazz label with an outstanding contemporary artist roster and a reputation for top-flight sound quality and production....

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Music from Entre Douro e Vouga

Music from Entre Douro e Vouga

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ocora

Rating: ★★★

In contrast to the extraordinary field recordings by Michel Giacometti and José Alberto Sardinha all over Portugal during the second...

Reviewed by Gongalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Up From The Deep

Up From The Deep

Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts

GR! Records

Rating: ★★★

Nominated for a BBC Horizon Award for best new act in 2010, and both graduates of the Leeds College of...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of World Massala

World Massala

Terrakota

Ojo Música

Rating: ★★★

Manu Chao was probably the first internationally recognised artist to really nail world fusion – from his early days rocking...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Mozafar Shafii & the Râst Ensemble

Mozafar Shafii & the Râst Ensemble

Mozafar Shafii & the Râast Ensemble

Ocora

Rating: ★★★

Iranian singer Mozafar Shafii was an early student of the well-known Mohammed Reza Shajarian. So Shafii is senior to the...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Love and Death

Love and Death

Ebo Taylor

Strut Records

Rating: ★★★

This is the first ever internationally released studio album from Ebo Taylor, now 74 and one of the legends of...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Uncle Roland’s Flying Machine

Uncle Roland’s Flying Machine

Moishe’s Bagal

Top of the World

Eachday Music

Rating: ★★★★

Fans of this brilliant six-man band have been expecting this disc and it's been well worth the wait. Glen Baxter's...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Actitud Calle

Actitud Calle

Los de Abajo

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★

With a Banksy-style graphic on the cover, a photo from the commemorative marchofthe 40th anniversary of the 1968 student massacre...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Rewend

Rewend

Aynur

Arista/Sony

Rating: ★★★★

On this album, Aynur gives us what is probably her more satisfactory effort to date, due especially to the well-thought...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

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