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Review of Translate

Translate

Jiggy

Big Beat Music

Rating: ★★

It has been proved many a time that, in fusing the traditional music of two cultures, wonderful results can emerge,...

Reviewed by Rachel Cunniffe in issue: December/2017

Review of Otros Aires Presents Balkan Airs

Otros Aires Presents Balkan Airs

Balkan Airs

Galileo Music

Rating: ★★★★

Balkan Airs is the latest project from Buenos Aires' nu tango outfit Otros Aires, and it just might disappoint some...

Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Review of Aw Sa Yone Vol 2

Aw Sa Yone Vol 2

Dieuf-Dieul de Thies

Teranga Beat

Rating: ★★★★

In the early 1980s in the city of Thies in Senegal, a group recorded approximately two-and-a-half hours of music that...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2016

Review of Ammore, Trivolo, Currivo e Devozione

Ammore, Trivolo, Currivo e Devozione

La Moresca

Felmay FY8154

Rating: ★★★

La Moresca is an acoustic Neapolitan septet harnessing their local music to traditional styles of the Campania region and baroque...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Apr/May/2010

Review of Influence

Influence

The Count and the Cuban Cocktail

Major Sound

Rating: ★★★

The ever-expanding Cuban diaspora notwithstanding, there's something slightly bizarre about the circumstances of this debut album – recorded by a...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2015

Review of Legend

Legend

The Bulgarian Voices Angelite with Huun-Huur-Tu & Moscow Art Trio

Top of the World

Jaro 4300/0102

Rating: ★★★★

With a Bulgarian female choir, Tuvan throat singers and hand-picked musicians from Moscow, you get some spectacular sounds and textures...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Vindodo

Vindodo

Tonga Boys

1000HZ

Rating: ★★★

The first thing you'll notice about this album is its packaging – no jewel case here! Instead, the CD comes...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019

Review of The Fragile

The Fragile

O’Hooley & Tidow

No Masters

Rating: ★★★★

O’Hooley & Tidow were mightily impress¬ive at the Nowt So Queer as Folk concert at Cecil Sharp House, the home...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2012

Review of Hand to Play

Hand to Play

Olav Mjelva & Eli West

Olav Mjelva & Eli West

Rating: ★★★

The Seattle-based guitarist and singer Eli West is well-known for his old-time Americana duo with fellow singer Cahalen Morrison. West's...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: July/2019

Review of The Rough Guide to African Blues

The Rough Guide to African Blues

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★

What goes around comes around. African music was transported across the Atlantic in slave ships and came to soundtrack the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2014

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