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Review of A Curva Da Cintura (Mali-Brasil)

A Curva Da Cintura (Mali-Brasil)

Arnaldo Antunes, Toumani Diabaté & Edgard Scandurra

Top of the World

Mais Um Discos

Rating: ★★★★

After AfroCubism's Grammy-winning Mali Cuba album, are we about to see a spate of similarly styled cash-ins? Well, no worries,...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2012

Review of Deran

Deran

Bombino

Partisan Records

Rating: ★★★

After making his last two albums in the US with hotshot rock’n’roll producers, the Niger-born Touareg guitarist-poet Omara ‘Bombino’ Moctar...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2018

Review of Party Beats

Party Beats

Nkono Teles

BBE Records

Rating: ★★

This is another re-release from the Tabansi vault of 80s African music. The late Nkono Teles, who is perhaps better...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: November/2019

Review of tender

tender

Lady Maisery

Top of the World

Lady Maisery

Rating: ★★★★

Lady Maisery’s new album is a musical and lyrical exploration of the ambiguities of its one word title, tender. Hazel...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Drawn to the Light

Drawn to the Light

Alaw | ALAW

Taith Records

Rating: ★★★

Fiddle player Oli Wilson-Dickson and guitarist Dylan Fowler have a lengthy history of working together, sharing projects including The Devil’s...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2022

Review of Havana Cultura – The Search Continues

Havana Cultura – The Search Continues

Gilles Peterson Presents….

Top of the World

Brownswood Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

We've been here before, sort of. Three years ago BBC DJ Gilles Peterson enlisted the help of his musician mate...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of The Elizabethan Session

The Elizabethan Session

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Quercus Records

Rating: ★★★★

Soon after the various artists who collaborated on The Elizabethan Session conceived their evocation of the first Elizabethan age, they...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

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

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