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Review of Belenzuka Fallen from the Sky

Belenzuka Fallen from the Sky

Tomka Paunovic, Dragica Žunic, Miloljub Šakovic & Miroljub Raketic

WMAS

Rating: ★★★★

The two pairs of singers on this uncompromising recording – one male and one female – come from south-eastern Serbia...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2016

Review of Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris

Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Dust-to-Digital

Rating: ★★★★

The impressive scholarship and production nous of the Atlanta-based Dust-to-Digital label is here applied to a multimedia collection of the...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: July/2018

Review of The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect

Ranjana Ghatak

Revolver

Rating: ★★★★

British singer Ranjana Ghatak is well-known for her work uniting North Indian and Western musics, especially jazz, working with some...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2020

Review of Biyedi

Biyedi

Kerfala Kanté

Sterns

Rating: ★★

With a griot ancestry and over 30 years of records to his name, Kerfala Kanté deserves his high regard in...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2012

Review of Atlas

Atlas

Tune In

Tune In Crew

Rating: ★★

French production duo (and brothers) Harry and Xavier Veynand have chosen an appropriate title for their first album: it feels...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: January/2021

Review of African Blues

African Blues

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Putumayo

Rating: ★★★

A dozen years ago the Putumayo label issued one of the first compilations to explore the rich connections between African...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of Tincian

Tincian

9Bach

Top of the World

Real World

Rating: ★★★★

Singer Lisa Jên and guitarist Martin Hoyland delivered a superb debut album of traditional Welsh folk songs in 2009, fusing...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2014

Review of Forgotten Kingdom

Forgotten Kingdom

Jim Causley

Hands On Music

Rating: ★★★★

It's been more than a decade since Causley's debut album and his career has encompassed vocal trio The Devil's Interval,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2016

Review of Topspin

Topspin

Cardboard Fox

Cardboard Fox

Rating: ★★★

Cardboard Fox's music is striking for its lightness – a lightness of touch, that is, not of content. In this...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: July/2018

Review of World of Pixinguinha

World of Pixinguinha

Hamilton de Holanda Quintet

Adventure Music

Rating: ★★

Hamilton de Holanda is a fantastically accomplished musician. As a player of the bandolin (15-stringed lute) there are probably none...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: October/2015

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