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Review of Le Chant Khyal ou l'Art de l'Imagination

Le Chant Khyal ou l'Art de l'Imagination

Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande

Inédit

Rating: ★★★

Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande is currently one of the leading female artists of North Indian classical vocal music specialising in the genre...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: April/2021

Review of Cuba: Music and Revolution – Culture Clash in Havana Cuba, Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85 Vol 1

Cuba: Music and Revolution – Culture Clash in Havana Cuba, Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85 Vol 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Soul Jazz

Rating: ★★★★★

This compilation, curated by Gilles Peterson and Soul Jazz's Stuart Baker, collects together some of the most exploratory items from...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2021

Review of The Sound of Telemark

The Sound of Telemark

Sigmund Groven & Knut Buen

heilo

Rating: ★★★★

Drive three hours west of Oslo and nature beckons. There are farms, trees laden with red apples in late summer,...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2021

Review of Kill Me or Negotiate

Kill Me or Negotiate

Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy

BFDM

Rating: ★★★★

Egyptian vocalist and trumpeter Abdullah Miniawy and French electronicist Simo Cell have been collaborating for just over two years, tinkering...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2021

Review of Native Music 15: Traditional, Folk & World Music from Latvia

Native Music 15: Traditional, Folk & World Music from Latvia

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Skani

Rating: ★★★

Throughout their history the peoples of the Baltic have, sometimes at great cost, maintained their national and cultural identities, in...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2021

Review of Planting Trees

Planting Trees

Kandiafa

Sans Commentaire

Rating: ★★

Abdoulaye Koné, aka Kandiafa, is part of a long line of Mande griots including great-grandfather Djigui and his uncle, Mama...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: April/2021

Review of Mutende Mizimu: Vimbuza from Mzimba North

Mutende Mizimu: Vimbuza from Mzimba North

Doctor Kanuska Group

1000Hz Records

Rating: ★★★

Doctor Kanuska leads her ensemble in the traditional vimbuza healing trance dance ritual. As a child she was diagnosed by...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: April/2021

Review of Grifone

Grifone

Pulcinella & Maria Mazzotta

Compagnie Pulcinella

Rating: ★★★★

A primadonna in contemporary Italian folk, Maria Mazzotta lives between her hometown Salento and the French Pyrenees. She has a...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: April/2021

Review of Can You Feel It?

Can You Feel It?

The Drive

We Are Busy Bodies

Rating: ★★★

Last year the excellent Canadian crate-digging label We Are Busy Bodies reissued Armitage Road, a 1970 album by South African...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2021

Review of Jubel

Jubel

Majorstuen

Majorstuen Fiddlers Company

Rating: ★★★★

Two decades ago a group of young folk musicians said farewell to the Norwegian State Music Academy and decided to...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2021

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