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Review of Identity

Identity

Black Rock Band

Wantok Musik

Rating: ★★★

Hailing from the mining-tourist town of Jabiru, within the Northern Territory’s incredible Kakadu National Park, Black Rock Band follow up...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/2021

Review of Andanças

Andanças

Renato Borghetti

saphrane

Rating: ★★★

Brazil's gaucho culture is pretty much unknown outside its native country. With globally feted rivals in the shape of bossa...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2011

Review of Flash Company

Flash Company

The Outside Track

Lorimer Records

Rating: ★★★

There’s a fine line between music that’s tight and that which is so polished it has lost its soul. For...

Reviewed by Olivia Haughton in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Sentimento Popolare

Sentimento Popolare

Camilla Barbarito

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

Camilla Barbarito's musical journey is a rich and meandering one: as a young girl she spent time in Mali, and...

Reviewed by Megan Iacobini de fazio in issue: April/2019

Review of Mon Pays

Mon Pays

Vieux Farka Touré

Top of the World

Six Degrees Records

Rating: ★★★★

After three fine solo studio albums and his imaginative collaboration with the Israeli singer-songwriter Idan Raichel, Touré has surely earned...

Reviewed by Nigel Willliamson in issue: October/2013

Review of Communion

Communion

Park Jiha

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★

There's a dynamic and healthy scene in South Korea right now, in which young musicians are using traditional instruments to...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2018

Review of Wasla

Wasla

Tarek Abdallah & Adel Shams El-Din

Top of the World

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★★

Looking back over the last 20 years, it's amazing how the oud has risen from rank-and-file member of the takht...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Antipody

Antipody

Good Habits

Good Habits

Rating: ★★★

When is a duo not a duo? When it sounds like a chorus. Okay, as a joke it perhaps doesn’t...

Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Joropo Music from the Plains of Colombia

Joropo Music from the Plains of Colombia

Cimarrón

Top of the World

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Música Llanera is the music of the vast open expanses of the Colombian plains around the Orinoco River, up in...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Lust

Lust

Louisa Lyne & Di Yiddishe Kapelye

Maestro Music

Rating: ★★★

Winning Der Idisher Idol 2019 has brought Louisa Lyne and her group Di Yiddishe Kapelye into prominence. Released on September...

Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

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