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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

Review of En Paris – Live at FIP

En Paris – Live at FIP

Lila Downs

World Village WVF009

Rating: ★★★★

Lila Downs, with her unique blend of original songs and reworked classics emphasising human-rights politics, is one of Mexico's great...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: June/2010

Review of Uzbekistan: Spiritual and Sufi Chant

Uzbekistan: Spiritual and Sufi Chant

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ocora Radio France

Rating: ★★★★

A brilliant compilation of sacred Uzbek chants from the remote and religious area of Ferghana Valley, this album shows how...

Reviewed by Razia Sultanova in issue: October/2016

Review of Ritual

Ritual

Roberto López

Curura Musique

Rating: ★★★

Right in the middle of the rock-jazz-Latin Venn diagram there's a sweet spot reserved for Santana. Many have tried to...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2022

Review of Live in San Francisco

Live in San Francisco

Ry Cooder & Famosos Corridos

Top of the World

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★★

San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall, which looks as impressive as its name, is one of the closest things to...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Happ

Happ

Fribo

Fribo Records

Rating: ★★★

The innovative Scottish/Scandinavian/English band is happy to admit to being in something of a period of transition, Fribo sound in...

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

Review of Ravi Shankar: Sukanya

Ravi Shankar: Sukanya

London Philharmonic Orchestra

BBC

Rating: ★★★★

Ravi Shankar began writing his last major work when he was 90. An opera based on an ancient Sanskrit tale...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2020

Review of Solidarity

Solidarity

The Souljazz Orchestra

Top of the World

Strut Records

Rating: ★★★★

A multicultural album recorded by a group of international expats and Canadian natives on a surplus Tascam eight-track tape machine...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

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