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Review of Flow

Flow

Wu Man & Kojiro Umezaki

Top of the World

In a Circle Records

Rating: ★★★★

Flow is a collaborative work between Wu Man – generally considered the world's greatest player of the Chinese pipa –...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2021

Review of Introducing…

Introducing…

Invisible System

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

The Introducing series has brought some fabulous artists to wider attention. Its latest is a digital-only release of producer and...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2012

Review of Roots of OK Jazz: Congo Classics 1955-56

Roots of OK Jazz: Congo Classics 1955-56

OK Jazz

Crammed Discs CRAW 67

Rating: ★★★★

This is a reissue of a collection originally released in 1993 as part of the excellent ‘Zaire Classics’ series. Since...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2010

Review of Seudan

Seudan

Seudan

Greentrax Records

Rating: ★★★★

Listening to the new self-titled album by Seudan, a band consisting of pipers Angus MacKenzie, Angus Nicholson, Calum MacCrimmon, Fin...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of The Village

The Village

Monoswezi

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Although most of the compositions on this CD are based on traditional Zimbabwean songs, it would be fair to say...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2013

Review of Agüeros

Agüeros

Sonoras Mil

Sonoras Mil

Rating: ★★★

One accusation that cannot be fired at Colombia’s Sonoras Mil, the project of Felipe Gómez Ossa, is a lack of...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2022

Review of NEWiD

NEWiD

Allan yn y Fan

Steam Pie Records

Rating: ★★★

This sixth album from the traditional Welsh outfit also sees the unveiling of a six-piece line-up and a new singer....

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: November/2016

Review of Dimbambe: Identité

Dimbambe: Identité

Mario Combo

Bright Moon Production

Rating: ★★★

Affable yet determined, velvet-smooth yet troubled. Such colourful, perhaps contradictory epithets could describe the Cameroonian Mario Combo and his fourth...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of Skycatcher

Skycatcher

10 Ft Ganja Plant

Reachout International Records

Rating: ★★

Hasidic Jewish crossovers aside, New York’s reggae scene has become trademarked by large, brass heavy dub groups who use guest...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of Impromptu

Impromptu

The Angelo Debarre Quartet

Lejazzetal

Rating: ★★★★

Angelo Debarre, born in St-Denis, France, starte d playing guitar at the age of eight. A member of the Manouche...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

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