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Review of Voices

Voices

Ranagri

Goatskin Records

Rating: ★★★

Ranagri are an Anglo-Irish contemporary folk quartet whose songs have an epic quality, with soaring vocals from Donal Rogers, echoing...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2017

Review of Nocturno

Nocturno

Gianni Iorio & Pasquale Stafano

Enja Records

Rating: ★★★★

Ever since Astor Piazzolla relocated to Milan in 1973 to spend a decade experimenting and recording blistering, audacious albums such...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2016

Review of Reflections of Palestine

Reflections of Palestine

Ramzi Aburedwan

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★

One of the good news stories to come out of the despair of the first Intifada was how music guided...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: October/2012

Review of Italie: Polyphonies Vocales de Ligurie

Italie: Polyphonies Vocales de Ligurie

La Compagnia Sacco di Ceriana

Buda/Musique du Monde 3018100

Rating: ★★★★

In a north-western corner of Italy, inland from Sanremo and not far from the French border, a cascade of fortified...

Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Last of the Outlaws

Last of the Outlaws

Railroad Earth

Black Bear Records

Rating: ★★★

Railroad Earth balance a studious approach to Americana, which generates tuneful passages and thoughtful songs, with a “Worry? What, us?”...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Couleur

Couleur

Dobet Gnahoré

Cumbancha

Rating: ★★★★

Three years after her masterpiece, Miziki, Ivorian singer Dobet Gnahoré has now taken up the challenge to produce another highly...

Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: Aug/Sep/2021

Review of Lorin

Lorin

Mizgîn

KOM

Rating: ★★★★

With the Kurdish question still a festering sore in Turkish politics it's hard to discuss this album in purely musical...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: October/2018

Review of We Have Tigers

We Have Tigers

Inga Liljeström

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★

I have mixed feelings about We Have Tigers, the debut folk album of the Finnish-English artist Inga Liljeström. Let's deal...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: March/2018

Review of Bem-Vinda Amizade

Bem-Vinda Amizade

Jorge Ben

Munster Records

Rating: ★★★

Even those with only a passing interest in Brazilian music will have heard the song ‘Mas Que Nada’ – a...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: May/2022

Review of Ngiwu Shwabada

Ngiwu Shwabada

Sibusile Xaba

Komos Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

The 2017 debut by the young, dreadlocked South African jazz guitarist and singer Sibusile Xaba, Unlearning/Open Letter to Adoniah, received...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2020

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