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Review of Zik’r East/Zik’r West

Zik’r East/Zik’r West

Karen Ruimy

Karais

Rating: ★★★★

Born in Morocco to Jewish parents and raised in Paris, Ruimy spent seven years as a banker and financier before...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Review of Ghazalaw

Ghazalaw

Ghazalaw

Top of the World

Marvels of the Universe/Theatr Mwldan

Rating: ★★★★

A series of mash-ups might seem like a flimsy basis for an album, but on Ghazalaw's debut a prince among...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Review of Nyanza

Nyanza

Owiny Sigoma Band

Brownswood Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

This is the third album from this Kenya-London collaboration and it's the most satisfying and varied set they’ve created yet....

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Review of Kolaba

Kolaba

Afriquoi

Wormfood Records

Rating: ★★★

Kolaba is the culmination of a four-year collaboration between various African musicians living and working in London, and the duo...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Review of Resistance

Resistance

The Souljazz Orchestra

Top of the World

Strut Records

Rating: ★★★★

The hard-hitting sextet from Ottawa struts its stuff again. It may be the band's first all-vocal album and there may...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Review of Invocación

Invocación

Yilian Cañizares

Naïve Records

Rating: ★★★★

Some aficionados of Latin American music can listen to the swaying rhythms of salsa or the rippling beats of son...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Review of Not One but Another

Not One but Another

Andy Kirkham

Bijou

Rating: ★★★

Andy Kirkham is a British, Norfolk-based folk guitar player and songwriter. His fifth solo album is a reflective affair, consisting...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Review of Redux: Anthology 1978-2015

Redux: Anthology 1978-2015

Jah Wobble

30 Hertz

Rating: ★★★

After two game-changing albums with his mate Johnny Rotten's post-Sex Pistols band Public Image Ltd, John Wardle, aka Jah Wobble,...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Review of The Drunken Wind of Life: The Poem/Songs of Tin Ujević

The Drunken Wind of Life: The Poem/Songs of Tin Ujević

John Kruth

Smiling Fez Records

Rating: ★★★★

Musical relations between the US and Croatia are of long standing, with some of the earliest recordings of the tamburica...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Review of Por Ahí

Por Ahí

Rana Santacruz

Chicavasco Music

Rating: ★★★★

Born and raised in Mexico City, but based in Brooklyn since 2002, Rana Santacruz styles himself as a Latino heir...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

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