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Review of Corriente Vital: 10 Años

Corriente Vital: 10 Años

Ojos de Brujo

Warner

Rating: ★★★★

The last ten years seem to have passed as quickly as the pulsing beats in ‘Corre Lola Corre’ for Ojos...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2011

Review of Mexico: Festival of San Miguel Tzinacapan

Mexico: Festival of San Miguel Tzinacapan

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ocora/Radio France 561099

Rating: ★★★

If you have ever happened to find yourself in a South American village when a fiesta is taking place, you’ll...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: March/2010

Review of Canzuni

Canzuni

Massimo Ferrante

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

Canzuni is a fine assortment of southern Italian folk songs. Calabria-born but a long-time resident of Naples, Ferrante is a...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: June/2022

Review of Musical Explorers: Krishna in Spring

Musical Explorers: Krishna in Spring

Deben Bhattacharya

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

This two-disc set features a compilation from the archive of music explorer Deben Bhattacharya (1921-2001), who travelled and made field...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: November/2017

Review of Nanna

Nanna

Xavier Rudd & the United Nations

Nettwerk

Rating: ★★

The eighth studio album from the barefoot Aussie troubadour sees him foregoing his one-man band approach, where he multi-tracked countless...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2015

Review of Whiskey Cambodia

Whiskey Cambodia

Cambodian Space Project

Metal Postcard

Rating: ★★★

For their third album, Cambodian Space Project have traversed the Pacific and landed in the Motor City, to team up...

Reviewed by Edward Craggs in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Aborigines of Taiwan: Anthology of the Vocal Art

Aborigines of Taiwan: Anthology of the Vocal Art

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

You can’t get more evocative of rural village life than song titles such as ‘Making Fun of Abu’ and Airing...

Reviewed by Shzr Ee Tan in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of Bem-Ti-Vi

Bem-Ti-Vi

Nelson da Rabeca, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Celio de Carvalho & Dona Benedita

TrAP Music

Rating: ★★★

The rabeca is a rustic variant on the violin, with a deep, dry tone. After seeing one on TV at...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Hurry the Jug

Hurry the Jug

Leonard Barry, Declan Folan & Shane McGowan

Barry Folan & McGowan

Rating: ★★★★

Leonard Barry, Declan Folan and Shane McGowan's long comradeship in countless live sessions pays crisp, spryly accented dividends aplenty in...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2020

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

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