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Review of Rroma Sapien

Rroma Sapien

Lolo Lovina

Lolo Lovina

Rating: ★★★★

Sydney-based ensemble Lolo Lovina is built around the impressive talents of Hungarian-Romani singer Sarah Bedak and her Serbian Gypsy guitarist-drummer...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2016

Review of Magnificent Creatures

Magnificent Creatures

Gren Bartley

Fellside Recordings

Rating: ★★★

On solo album number three the singer-songwriter Gren Bartley has truly found his voice. It's quite a transformation. He has...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: November/2015

Review of Adibar

Adibar

Mamadou Kelly

Clermont Music

Rating: ★★★

It’s odd now to recall that initial responses in the West to Ali Farka Toure’s Songhai guitar music – 25...

Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: March/2014

Review of Glasshouses

Glasshouses

James Lascelles Quartet

Orme Records

Rating: ★

Keyboardist Lascelles was a founder member of the Global Village Trucking Company in the early 1970s, going on to become...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2017

Review of Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-81

Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-81

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Soundway SNDWCD016

Rating: ★★★★

At a time when so much music is being reissued and repackaged, it is heartening that there are still labels...

Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Jan/Feb/2010

Review of Griot Jazz

Griot Jazz

Baba Sissoko

Caligola Records

Rating: ★★★★

Those lucky enough to be backstage for rehearsals of the African opera Le Vol du Boli, taking place at a...

Reviewed by Pierre Cuny in issue: March/2022

Review of Momentos

Momentos

Dulce Pontes

Ondeia/Galileo GMC038

Rating: ★★★

Dulce Pontes began her musical career in 1991 when, as a shy teenager, she sang for Portugal in the Eurovision...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Waterduction

Waterduction

Warsaw Village Band

Top of the World

Karrot Kommando

Rating: ★★★★

One of Poland's outstanding musical exports, Warsaw Village Band follow their return-to-roots set, Mazovian Roots Re:action, with something of a...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2021

Review of Al Qantara: The Bridge

Al Qantara: The Bridge

Benjamin Taubkin

Adventure Music

Rating: ★★★★

Southern Morocco has become a hot-house of cultural fusion, partly due to the number of foreign musicians playing and working...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2014

Review of Ji

Ji

Jens Pollheide & Imran Khan

Fuego Records

Rating: ★★★

This pairing between German ex-Embryo bassist Pollheide and Indian sitar player Imran Khan marks the culmination of seven years of...

Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: March/2022

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