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Review of Ngā Mata o te Ariki Tāwhirimātea

Ngā Mata o te Ariki Tāwhirimātea

Maisey Rika

First Nation Music – Aotearoa

Rating: ★★★★

After growing up singing with her mother and aunties, award-winning Māori vocalist Maisey Rika began performing professionally at age 13....

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2021

Review of Postcards

Postcards

Beyond The Pale

Borealis BCD197

Rating: ★★★★

‘Like David Grisman's Dawg’ music, but with pierogies,’ is how Eric Stein, leader of Beyond The Pale once jokingly described...

Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: Apr/May/2010

Review of The New Line

The New Line

Boys of the Lough

Boys of the Lough

Rating: ★★★★

Can this really be the Boys of the Lough's 23rd album? It's remarkable to think so as they sound as...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2015

Review of Recordar é Viver: Antologia Vol 1

Recordar é Viver: Antologia Vol 1

Pedro Lima

Top of the World

Bongo Joe Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This anthology provides an excellent opportunity to expand any record collection that’s light on the music of São Tomé and...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2022

Review of DJ Lubi Jovanovic presents Salsa Funk Experience

DJ Lubi Jovanovic presents Salsa Funk Experience

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Nascente

Rating: ★★★

Here’s yet another addition to Nascente’s Funk Experience series – Kid Loco’s French Funk Experience has been released simultaneously –...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Apr/May/2011

Review of Moyuba Baba, Moyuba Yeye

Moyuba Baba, Moyuba Yeye

The London Lucumi Choir

Movimientos

Rating: ★★★★

Now 12 years old, the London Lucumi Choir continues to do extraordinary community-centred arts work and celebrates the rich, syncretistic...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2018

Review of Dawning

Dawning

Saffron

Tames Records

Rating: ★★★★

We all know the path of fusion is strewn with many pitfalls. What sounds good in theory often lacks coherence...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Ikivirta

Ikivirta

Sarah Palu

Sarah Palu

Rating: ★★★

Finnish-French composer Sarah Palu chose to release this, her debut, as a download code hidden within a bar of vegan...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: November/2020

Review of Africa Caribe

Africa Caribe

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Fania

Rating: ★★★

To inject some life into their catalogue of 4,000 albums, the current owners of Fania Records turned over master tapes...

Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: October/2011

Review of Jewish Folksongs from the Shtetl

Jewish Folksongs from the Shtetl

Olga Mieleszczuk

Olga Mieleszczuk

Rating: ★★★

Olga Mieleszczuk is a classically trained Polish singer and accordionist. In recent years she has focused on Yiddish and Jewish...

Reviewed by Helen Beer in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

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