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Review of Avante

Avante

Siba

Top of the World

Mais Um Discos

Rating: ★★★★★

He played a key role in the recent resurgence of interest in traditional music from the north-east of Brazil, initially...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of Cuba: Music and Revolution – Culture Clash in Havana Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85, Vol 2

Cuba: Music and Revolution – Culture Clash in Havana Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85, Vol 2

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Soul Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★★

Soul Jazz continue their excavation of Cuba’s Areito records with a second volume picking up where the first left off....

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Remezcla/Pe

Remezcla/Pe

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Selvamonos

Rating: ★★★★★

Remezcla is ‘remix’ in Spanish; Pe is the URL country code of Peru. Each of the 15 songs on this...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: November/2021

Review of Samarpan

Samarpan

Manish Pingle

Ramble Records

Rating: ★★★★

Introduced to Indian classical music by Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and the gloriously experimental Debashish Bhattachrya, the...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022

Review of Mulatu Steps Ahead

Mulatu Steps Ahead

Mulatu Astatke

Strut Records STRUT056CD

Rating: ★★★★

An influential star of the golden age of Ethiopian popular music, Mulatu Astatke was also the first African student at...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2010

Review of Fatteliku: Live in Athens

Fatteliku: Live in Athens

Youssou N’Dour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar

Real World

Rating: ★★★★

In 1987, when it looked as though global sounds, African music in particular, would take a major share of the...

Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: November/2015

Review of Lady On The Green

Lady On The Green

Rafe & Clelia Stefanini

Old Willow Tree

Rating: ★★★

Rafe Stefanini was born in Italy and, like the Italian film director Sergio Leone, fell in love with the US...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2012

Review of The Myth of the Golden Ratio

The Myth of the Golden Ratio

United Vibrations

Ubiquity Recordings

Rating: ★★★

This London-based quartet is made up of the three brothers Yussef, Ahmad and Kareem Dayes (who play, respectively, drums, trombone...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2016

Review of Nordic Notes #100: Great Tunes from Scandinavia

Nordic Notes #100: Great Tunes from Scandinavia

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Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★★★

Nordic Notes is a German record label with a passion for the music of northern Europe and Finland in particular....

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2018

Review of All We Have is Now

All We Have is Now

Elephant Sessions

Elephant Sessions

Rating: ★★★

Self-proclaimed Highland neo-trad quintet Elephant Sessions are a curious mix of traditional roots, electronic, rock and funk. Comprising Euan Smille...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2017

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