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Review of Gift

Gift

Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson

Top of the World

Topic Records TSCD579

Rating: ★★★★★

Although Eliza Carthy has sung with her mother all her life, and recorded and toured with her in Waterson: Carthy,...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Get a Life

Get a Life

The Warren G Hardings

Warren G Hardings

Rating: ★★★

Warren G Harding is an odd name to choose for a band name. History regards that particular US president as...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Ergo

Ergo

Zhen Chen

Navona Records

Rating: ★★

Piano wunderkind Zhen Chen has an ambitious mission: to forge a new style of music that chimes with a generation...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Review of Griot Classique

Griot Classique

Mamadou Diabaté

JRS Records

Rating: ★★★★

A decade younger than his cousin Toumani, the kora player Mamadou Diabaté is arguably the better-known of the two in...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Ring Road

Ring Road

Mohamed Abozekry & Heejaz Extended

Jazz Village

Rating: ★★★★

Based in France for over five years, the young Egyptian oud virtuoso Mohamed Abozekry recently presented his second album in...

Reviewed by Jean Berry in issue: June/2015

Review of The Rough Guide to Peru Rare Groove

The Rough Guide to Peru Rare Groove

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★

Those who come to this cheerful, varied collection of rare, overlooked or forgotten gems from various vaults with expectations of...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2016

Review of Café Türk

Café Türk

Café Türk

Zel Zele

Rating: ★★★★

This LP is one of the most welcome releases of the year, and the story behind it is a heart-warming...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: January/2021

Review of Santiman

Santiman

The Creole Choir of Cuba

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★

This is that difficult second album, from the most internationally visible of the folklore troupes of the big Haitian community...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Many Faces

Many Faces

Justin Thurgur

Funkiwala

Rating: ★★★★

The cover of this sophomore album by London-based trombonist Justin Thurgur sums up its questing, fizzing, all-for-one spirit. Here, inside...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Darandi

Darandi

Aurelio

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★★

With their lilting, soulful melodies, drums and guitars, the paranda songs of the Garifuna people are one of the world's...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2017

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