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Review of Crazy Groove

Crazy Groove

Sivuca

Milan Records

Rating: ★★

Internationally renowned for his work with Miriam Makeba and Toots Thielemans, and for popularising forró music in Brazil, the Brazilian...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Alep-Brest

Alep-Brest

Ensemble Fawaz Baker

Hirustica

Rating: ★★★

Aleppo in northern Syria has lived through tragedy. Its name now resonates with the pain of a brutal war, which...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of Strovilos

Strovilos

Trio Tekke

Top of the World

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This is another winner from the class act that brought us the great albums Zivo and Samás. Here they are...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2020

Review of Vōytek (The Bear)

Vōytek (The Bear)

Tantz

Tantz

Rating: ★★★★

Klezmer has a rebel soul and this is certainly not absent in Tantz's debut album. The fact that they have...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of In Buenos Aires

In Buenos Aires

Fraser Fifield, Walther E Castro, Quique Sinesi, Mono Hurtado

Tanar Records

Rating: ★★★

Argentina has a healthy Celtic music scene, thanks to its small but significant populations of Scottish and Irish extraction and...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2017

Review of The Ultimate Guide to Welsh Folk

The Ultimate Guide to Welsh Folk

VARIOUS ARTISTS

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

This richly varied introduction to the Welsh folk music tradition is an important contribution from the lesser known and often...

Reviewed by Elliw Iwan in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Review of Nkolo

Nkolo

Lokua Kanza

Top of the World

World Village WVF 479043

Rating: ★★★★

Pascal ‘Lokua’ Kanza has roots in Congo–Kinshasa and Rwanda, two nations afflicted by the greatest contemporary tragedies Africa has known....

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Apr/May/2010

Review of No Borders

No Borders

Hugh Masekela

Semopa

Rating: ★★★★★

At 78 years young, Masekela sounds as fiercely committed and as vibrant as ever on what is the 44th album...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2017

Review of Back to Sustain

Back to Sustain

The Pine Hearts

The Pine Hearts

Rating: ★★★

Like a light hike on an easy trail on a sunny spring afternoon, The Pine Hearts' fourth studio album doesn't...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020

Review of Conversations with Manol

Conversations with Manol

Ara Dinkjian

Krikor Music

Rating: ★★★★

I loved the idea behind this CD even before I started listening to it; the album pays homage to an...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

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