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Review of Electric

Electric

Richard Thompson

Proper

Rating: ★★★★

Buddy Miller produced Richard Thompson's latest album in his home studio in Nashville. It shows in the sound, which swings...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013

Review of Naz

Naz

Liraz

Dead Sea Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

When Liraz Charhi began writing her third album, she decided to do things differently. After an indifferent response to her...

Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: November/2018

Review of Out of Many: 50 Years of Reggae Music

Out of Many: 50 Years of Reggae Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

VP

Rating: ★★★

Marking the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence, this compilation is named after the island’s motto, ‘Out of Many,’ Drawing on...

Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of Cas

Cas

Lúnasa

Lúnasa Records

Rating: ★★★★

Cas has several meanings in Irish: to turn, to twist, and to sing being among them. All are apt terms...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2018

Review of Mariachi Reyna de Los Ángeles

Mariachi Reyna de Los Ángeles

Mariachi Reyna de Los Ángeles

Smithsonian Folkways

Rating: ★★★

There ought to be nothing surprising about an all-female mariachi band, but this particular branch of Mexican music has such...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2018

Review of Sunday Never Comes

Sunday Never Comes

Jackstraw

jackstraw.net

Rating: ★★★★

The global music community is beginning to notice another pioneering band from Portland, Oregon that has built a devoted local...

Reviewed by Jeff Hammarlund in issue: July/2012

Review of Buena Vista Social Club: 25th Anniversary Edition

Buena Vista Social Club: 25th Anniversary Edition

Buena Vista Social Club

World Circuit

Rating: ★★★★★

Readers of Songlines will need no reminder of how the combination of Ry Cooder's meticulous production, a cast of veteran...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2021

Review of On The Move

On The Move

Colin Farrell

Colin Farrell

Rating: ★★★

Firstly (as he must surely be heartily sick of hearing by now), this Colin Farrell is not the famously rowdy...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of The Journey

The Journey

Lionel Loueke

Aparté Music

Rating: ★★★★

Herbie Hancock was reputedly knocked out by Benin-born Lionel Loueke's guitar playing. It is indeed something special. On ‘Guira’, he...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2019

Review of Ne Ka Mali!!

Ne Ka Mali!!

Amkoullel

The Orchard

Rating: ★★★

Amkoullel's Mali is a little different to the West African country of koras and calabashes, Toumanis and Djelimadys, percussion ensembles,...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2011

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