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Review of Kangaroo Dance

Kangaroo Dance

Zong Zing All Stars

Fire in the Mountains Records

Rating: ★★★

In Congo's Lingala language the term nzong-nzing (or zong-zing) refers to any kind of additional work activity. In musical terms...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: April/2020

Review of Fu Chronicles

Fu Chronicles

Antibalas

Top of the World

Daptone Records

Rating: ★★★★

This isn't your average Afrobeat album; this one explores not only messages of black power and equality, but also the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2020

Review of Revel and Rhyme

Revel and Rhyme

Nettlebone

Nettlebone

Rating: ★★★

This is a serious-minded collection of original ballads in the English folk song tradition. The opener, ‘World Turned Upside Down’,...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: April/2020

Review of Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia

Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia

Bokan Stanković

WMAS Records

Rating: ★★★

Bagpipes are not the first instrument that come to mind when you think of Serbian music. And it's a dwindling...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020

Review of Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia

Traditional Playing on the Svrljig Bagpipes, Duduk and Ocarina from Eastern Serbia

Bokan Stanković

WMAS Records

Rating: ★★★

Bagpipes are not the first instrument that come to mind when you think of Serbian music. And it's a dwindling...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2020

Review of Vida-Código

Vida-Código

Tiganá Santana

Ajabu!

Rating: ★★★

For Vida-Código -his fourth album and his third on the Swedish Ajabu! label – Tiganá Santana presents very little of...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2020

Review of Sul Filo

Sul Filo

Iva Bittová & Paolo Angeli

ReR Megacorp

Rating: ★★★

Iva Bittová has been pushing the boundaries of East European music for almost 30 years, her voice and violin (and...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2020

Review of Sangeet

Sangeet

Sudeshna Bhattacharya & Tanmoy Bose

Losen Records

Rating: ★★★

Sudeshna Bhattacharya, who has been a lecturer in International Management and also teaches Indian classical music at the Norwegian Academy...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: April/2020

Review of Songs of Forbidden Love

Songs of Forbidden Love

The London Bulgarian Choir

The London Bulgarian Choir

Rating: ★★★★

Under the assured leadership of Dessislava Stefanova, The London Bulgarian Choir have become a very impressive outfit. The LBC consist...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: April/2020

Review of Calypso Travels

Calypso Travels

Lord Invader & His Calypso Group

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings VINYL ONLY

Rating: ★★★★★

One of three initial releases in the Smithsonian Folkways Vinyl Reissue Series, Calypso Travels features native Trinidadian Lord Invader (born...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020

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