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Review of Native Tongue

Native Tongue

Mojo Juju

ABC Music

Rating: ★★★

Having started her music career fronting the rollicking Australian cabaret band Mojo Juju & The Snake Oil Merchants between 2006...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2019

Review of Taoba

Taoba

Kaumaakonga

Wantok Musik

Rating: ★★★★

A new group from the Solomon Islands, Kaumaakonga hail from the small southern isles of Mungava and Mungiki (jointly referred...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2019

Review of Rapadou Kreyol

Rapadou Kreyol

Wesli

WUP

Rating: ★★★★

Wesli is the stage name of Wesley Louissaint, a Haitian musician based in Montréal since 1989. In Canada, Wesli has...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2019

Review of Château du Garage

Château du Garage

Spöket i Köket

Go'' Danish Folk Music

Rating: ★★

This is a very strange concoction. Spöket i Köket (Ghost in the Kitchen) are a ten-piece band based in Sweden,...

Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: October/2019

Review of Togetherings

Togetherings

The Blassics

Odd Funk Records

Rating: ★★★

Afrobeat! It started in the West African tropics and blazed a trail almost as far as the Arctic… well, Finland,...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2019

Review of The Four Pillars

The Four Pillars

Mike Vass

Unroofed

Rating: ★★★

This multimedia project first began to take shape when musician, composer, producer and arranger Mike Vass, formerly with Malinky and...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2019

Review of I Love You Inna

I Love You Inna

Oumar Konaté

Clermont Music

Rating: ★★★★

Hailing from Gao in northern Mali, Konaté's roots are steeped in the desert blues of the Songhai people. But the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2019

Review of Gobi Desert

Gobi Desert

Guo Gan Trio

Top of the World

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★★

Stretching across an expanse of terrain joining Central Asia to northern China, the Gobi Desert is the location of several...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2019

Review of Night Song

Night Song

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook

Real World Records VINYL REISSUE

Rating: ★★★★

Night Song was the second time the Pakistani devotional qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan had worked with Canadian producer...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2019

Review of Easy Money

Easy Money

Old Man Luedecke

True North Records

Rating: ★★★

Four years on from his intriguing Domestic Eccentric collection, the Canadian singer-songwriter, born Christopher Luedecke, is not only more domestic...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2019

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