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Review of Apollo You Sixteen

Apollo You Sixteen

Karim Baggili

Take the Bus

Rating: ★★★★

‘Progressive world music’ is how this Belgium-based 40-year-old autodidact describes his latest album, which fuses flamenco with folk, garage, classical...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of Ensen

Ensen

Emel

Partisan Records

Rating: ★★★

Emel Mathlouthi is a Tunisian singer-songwriter whose song ‘Kelmti Horra (My Word is Free)’ became a youth anthem during the...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2017

Review of A Vontade Superstar

A Vontade Superstar

Bruno Morais

Black Brown & White

Rating: ★★

The Sao Paulo music scene is currently thriving, with artists such as Criolo, Tulipa and Céu getting international releases and...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of Leaving Eden

Leaving Eden

Carolina Chocolate Drops

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★

The new release from the American acoustic trio comes with high expect¬ations, after its pre¬decessor, Genuine Negro Jig won a...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2012

Review of Rumba Argelina

Rumba Argelina

Radio Tarifa

Top of the World

World Circuit/BMG

Rating: ★★★★

When Rumba Argelina blasted the late Benjamín Escoriza and his Moorish sidemen to the fore of Spanish flamenco fusion in...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of Adouna

Adouna

Sefo Kanuteh

Actual Music

Rating: ★★★

Releasing two different albums simultaneously is a bold move and you probably need to have a captive audience to get...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2021

Review of Red Gold Green and Blue RMX

Red Gold Green and Blue RMX

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Tiojan Jamaica

Rating: ★★

Last year Trojan Jamaica released Red, Gold, Green and Blue, a selection of covers of sacred blues and soul works...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2020

Review of Shortwinger

Shortwinger

Maddy Prior, Hannah James & Giles Lewin

Park Records

Rating: ★★★★

In 2012, Maddy Prior got together with singer, accordionist and clog dancer Hannah James (Lady Maisery) and violinist and piper...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Review of Wolves a’ Howlin’

Wolves a’ Howlin’

Kieran Towers & Charlotte Carrivick

Towers & Carrivick

Rating: ★★★

This pair of talented instrumentalists don’t look old enough to be playing music this long in the tooth. Fiddler Kieran...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: December/2016

Review of Wild Winds

Wild Winds

Artisan Row

Lola Records

Rating: ★★★

Wild Winds is a rich offering from a London-Irish quartet (Conor Doherty, Elma McElligott, Pete Quinn and Karen Ryan). It...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: December/2017

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