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Review of Do Coração

Do Coração

Sara Correia

Universal Music Portugal

Rating: ★★★

Last year, we praised Sara Correia’s first adult album (she had released a previous one in her adolescence) as a...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2020

Review of Sultan

Sultan

Alune Wade | Alune Wade & Harold López-Nussa

Enja

Rating: ★★★★

Since beginning his career in Ismaël Lô’s band more than 20 years ago, the Dakar-born, Paris-based singer and bassist Alune...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2022

Review of Tomorrow Will Follow Today

Tomorrow Will Follow Today

Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman

Iscream Music Records

Rating: ★★★

A young man refuses to sleep with his uncle's wife. She stabs herself and blames the boy. His uncle has...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2015

Review of I’ll Find a Way

I’ll Find a Way

Blind Boys of Alabama

Sony Masterworks

Rating: ★★★

As with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, recording the Blind Boys of Alabama has its challenges. The two gospel vocal groups from...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2014

Review of Interesting Times

Interesting Times

Basco

Go Danish Folk Music

Rating: ★★★★

‘There is no escaping it. We live in the sort of times that will be referred to by historians as...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2017

Review of Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail

Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail

Noam Pikelny

Top of the World

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★★

As a member of the progressive bluegrass band the Punch Brothers, banjo player Noam Pikelny has made a name for...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of Casa Guilhermina

Casa Guilhermina

Ana Moura

Sony Music Portugal

Rating: ★★★

Rosalía totally changed the flamenco game, redefining the genre for the 21st century. Of course, she promptly crossed the border...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Mongolie: Chants de Gorge

Mongolie: Chants de Gorge

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Air Mail Music

Rating: ★

This budget CD is a compilation of Mongolian traditional music that only actually features four tracks with throat singing. The...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: November/2015

Review of Calypso Rose Forever

Calypso Rose Forever

Calypso Rose

Because Music

Rating: ★★★

The return to the spotlight in 2016 of the veteran Calypso Rose, half-a-century after she was first crowned Trinidad’s carnival...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2022

Review of Coti Coti

Coti Coti

Nahui Cuarteto de Saxofones

Cugate Classics

Rating: ★

How much sax can you take? Anyone working in the vicinity of a tireless one-hit busker or being driven by...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2021

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