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Review of Original

Original

Bobby Osborne

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★

Bobby Osborne's latest album is an engaging compendium of tunes by some of Memphis' finest songwriters, from the 86-year-old high-lonesome...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2017

Review of Songs of Lalon Shah

Songs of Lalon Shah

Farida Parveen

Ocora Radio France

Rating: ★★★★

The Bengali poet Lalon Shah, popularly known as Moner Manush (Man of the Heart), is the most celebrated of the...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2017

Review of Mollevit

Mollevit

Habadekuk

Go Danish Folk Music

Rating: ★★★★

A decade ago, a handful of folk and jazz students at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in southern...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2017

Review of Liquid Love

Liquid Love

Onom Agemo & the Disco Jumpers

Agogo Records

Rating: ★★

Any album from a band with a name this bizarre is sure to be eclectic and Liquid Love is just...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: November/2017

Review of Frost on Fiddles

Frost on Fiddles

Frigg

Frigg

Rating: ★★★★★

One of my enduring WOMAD memories is of a cold, wet, muddy night in 2007 when the seven-piece Finnish band...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2017

Review of La Confusion

La Confusion

Amadou & Mariam

Because Music

Rating: ★★

The ninth studio album from the blind Malian duo opens with ‘Bofou Safou’, a disco-fied electro-pop excursion that you'd be...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2017

Review of Straight Allons

Straight Allons

Kyle Huval & the Dixie Club Ramblers

Valcour Records

Rating: ★★★★

Kyle Huval is a 20-something Cajun accordionist from Eunice, Louisiana. Straight Allons is his second album and proves as refreshing...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: November/2017

Review of Ephemera

Ephemera

Ensemble Lingua Franca

Lingua Franca Productions

Rating: ★★★

All four musicians of Lingua Franca are graduates of the Rotterdam Conservatoire (CODARTS) and two are now teachers there, specialising...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2017

Review of ¿Dónde Estás María?

¿Dónde Estás María?

Meridian Brothers

Soundway Records

Rating: ★★★★

When describing the music of Meridian Brothers, the Brazilian tropicália legend Tom Zé is a name that crops up a...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: November/2017

Review of Ma De Re Sha

Ma De Re Sha

Rahul Mukerji

Rahul Mukerji

Rating: ★★★

It would be easy to lump Rahul Mukerji's fusion guitar music in with the tradition of John McLaughlin, but nothing...

Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: November/2017

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