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Review of La Vérité

La Vérité

Fode Baro

Lusafrica

Rating: ★★★

Fode Baro is from Guinea, of Fulani-Mande descent, but he is not from a griot family. His music is a...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of Quoi D’Autre?

Quoi D’Autre?

Karima Nayt

Ajabu!

Rating: ★★

Karima Nayt is an Algerian dancer and singer whose peripatetic CV seems to have taken her to Sweden, where she...

Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of O Ku Ngwo Di Ochi

O Ku Ngwo Di Ochi

Oriental Brothers International Band

Palenque Records

Rating: ★★★

Fifty years ago the Oriental Brothers were a kind of Nigerian boy band. Hailing from the Igbo-dominated eastern region of...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2022

Review of Roadside

Roadside

Diogal

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

Currently based in France, Diogal is the son of a Senegalese fisherman and a self-professed ‘sound-designer.’ As well as four...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2018

Review of KG Westman & Zaعfaran

KG Westman & Zaعfaran

KG Westman & Zaعfaran

Top of the World

Root Rock Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This unlikely mash-up of music and musicians from India, Egypt and Sweden is, perhaps against the odds, a resounding success....

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: August/September/2022

Review of Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man

Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man

JP Harris’ Dreadful Wind & Rain

Top of the World

Free Dirt Records

Rating: ★★★★

With Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man Alabama-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter-guitarist and occasional banjo luthier Joshua Press (JP) Harris celebrates a...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2021

Review of Radio Niger

Radio Niger

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Sublime Frequencies

Rating: ★★★

This not the typical Songlines album – for one thing there’s no listing of some of the often brilliant artists...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: June/2014

Review of Todo el Mundo

Todo el Mundo

Kiko Villamizar

WEPA Studios

Rating: ★★★

Texas-based Colombian musician and lately also stand-up comedian Kiko Villamizar has released his new album Todo el Mundo following the...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: April/2022

Review of Tradisyon

Tradisyon

Wesli

Cumbancha

Rating: ★★★★

This is a collection of traditional Haitian songs modernised with skill and sensitivity by Montréal-based singer and multi-intrumentalist, Wesli. It’s...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Going for Broke

Going for Broke

Good Habits

Good Habits

Rating: ★★★★

Good Habits are a duo from Manchester Bonnie Schwarz (vocals/cello) and Pete Shaw (accordion/cajón). By a quirk of fate, they...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2020

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