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Review of Kosher Nostra: Jewish Gangsters Greatest Hits

Kosher Nostra: Jewish Gangsters Greatest Hits

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Essay Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

If the brilliant DJ Shantel had called this My Biggest Fattest Jewish Wedding Ever then it might end up selling...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Aug/Sep/2011

Review of London Stories

London Stories

Maciek Pysz & Gianluca Corona

33 Records

Rating: ★★

Maciek Pysz (from Poland) and Gianluca Corona (from Italy) first played together in 2012, at an East London jam session....

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2017

Review of ¡Vamos a Guarachar!

¡Vamos a Guarachar!

Orkesta Mendoza

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

David Byrne injected irony into cumbia. Argentina's shanty-town bands injected sleaze and spunk. Now, Tucson's Orkesta Mendoza have taken Latin...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of Sweet Visitor

Sweet Visitor

Nancy Kerr

Little Dish Records

Rating: ★★★★

She's got a pedigree going back to two superb albums with Eliza Carthy in the early 90s, and with partner...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Manushan

Manushan

Aïda & Babak

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★

Manushan is named after a legendary mountain in Iran near the Caspian Sea where, according to folklore, nomadic Gypsies from...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: August/2017

Review of The Spirit of the Mountains

The Spirit of the Mountains

Trebunie-Tutki & Quintet Urmuli

Unzipped Fly Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Trebunie-Tutki are Poland's best-known band playing traditional podhale (highland) music, but they are also famed for their reggae fusions...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: March/2017

Review of The Hard Working Men

The Hard Working Men

Ispíní na hÉireann

Ispíní na hÉireann

Rating: ★★★

Irish trad duo Ispíní na hÉireann have always taken a unique tack when it comes to self-promotion. The Dublin-based pair,...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: March/2023

Review of Guasá, Cununo y Marimba: Afro-Colombian Music from the Pacific Coast

Guasá, Cununo y Marimba: Afro-Colombian Music from the Pacific Coast

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★★

Afro-Colombian music has long been overlooked – largely down to an institutional and classist bias that, it has to be...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2020

Review of Crossover

Crossover

Emma Donovan & The Putbacks

Hope Street Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

A mainstay of the Australian indigenous music scene over the last 20 years, singer Emma Donovan grew up in a...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: April/2021

Review of Love and Leave You

Love and Leave You

100 Mile House

Fallen Tree Records

Rating: ★★★★

As the title suggests 100 Mile House's second album is all about relationships and loss. Love and Leave You is...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: July/2020

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