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Review of ¡Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!

¡Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!

Two Gentlemen Band

Serious Business Records

Rating: ★★★

Old-time music – that pre-modern amalgam of all the most exciting bits of 19th and early 20th century enter¬tainment careering...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2012

Review of Tributo Desde Londres a Cali

Tributo Desde Londres a Cali

Dorance Lorza & Sexteto Café

DLR Music

Rating: ★★

After a smash-hit album with Salsa with Vibraphone, Dorance Lorza & Sexteto Café are back. The music here is pleasant,...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: Jan/Feb/2019

Review of Mirage

Mirage

Solana

Solana

Rating: ★★★

Founded in Valencia in 2012 as an itinerant acoustic folk trio but now based in Bristol with their current line-up...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2022

Review of Wanga

Wanga

Throes + The Shine

Discotexas

Rating: ★★★★

Throes + The Shine's fiery electronic reconfigurations of kuduro – the popular Angolan dance music of the 1980s – are...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2016

Review of One Blinding Dusky Dusk

One Blinding Dusky Dusk

Whiskey Moonface

Smugglers Records

Rating: ★

Born out of a meeting of musical minds in an East London pub, this debut album is straight from the...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2014

Review of Yoyi

Yoyi

Grupo Los Yoyi

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★

Launching the Brighton-based label’s new Cuban Classic Series comes this curio from 1977, originally released on the Areito subsidiary of...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/February/2024

Review of Sóc Poeta

Sóc Poeta

Alba Asensi

Microscopi

Rating: ★★★★

This album from Alba Asensi, from Alicante, Spain, is her second release, following 2019's Semillas. She also founded Feminarum Aures,...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: May/2023

Review of Anarouz

Anarouz

3MA

Top of the World

Mad Minute Music

Rating: ★★★★

It has been a decade since the three master musicians of 3MA – Ballaké Sissoko (kora), Driss El Maloumi (oud)...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2018

Review of Port de Taipana

Port de Taipana

Duo de Schepper-Sanczuk

Appel Rekords

Rating: ★★★

This second studio album from the Belgian duo of Florian De Schepper and Anouk Sanczuk has a sense of joyous...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2020

Review of Ođđa áigodat

Ođđa áigodat

Solju

Top of the World

Bafe''s Factory/Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★★★

Solju is the name of a new project from the Finnish Sámi joiker Ulla Pirttijärvi and her daughter, Hilda Länsman....

Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

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