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Review of Obaa Sima

Obaa Sima

Ata Kak

Awesome Tapes from Africa

Rating: ★★★★

Brian Shimkovitz's label Awesome Tapes from Africa functions as a time capsule in so many brilliant ways. He picks up...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of The Rough Guide to Psychedelic India

The Rough Guide to Psychedelic India

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★

This eclectic collection features established giants such as Asha Bhosle alongside relative unknowns. Opening with a 70s Bollywood number by...

Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Rua da Emenda

Rua da Emenda

António Zambujo

Top of the World

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

Up to this point, António Zambujo had been gradually climbing a ladder that meant both more international recognition, establishing a...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Napot Holdat Csillagot

Napot Holdat Csillagot

Eszter Pál

Fonó Music

Rating: ★★

Pál is a new voice on the traditional Hungarian music scene, endorsed by the Hagyományok Hása (Hungarian Heritage House), the...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Incidents & Accidents

Incidents & Accidents

Dan Walsh

Rooksmere Records

Rating: ★★★

The best tracks on British singer and banjo player Dan Walsh's previous album, The Same but Different, were its solo...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of The Rough Guide to African Rare Groove Vol 1

The Rough Guide to African Rare Groove Vol 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

It's rare that the Rough Guide series fails to deliver and this release is no exception. Originally the term rare...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Souvenance

Souvenance

Anouar Brahem

ECM Records (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★

You would expect the events of late 2010 that sparked the Arab Spring to have had a profound effect on...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions

Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions

Robert Earl Keen

Dualtone

Rating: ★★★★

Robert Earl Keen's latest album kicks off with a funky little hoedown by Flatt & Scruggs, ‘Hot Corn, Cold Corn.’...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of Melodic Melange

Melodic Melange

Anders Hagberg & Ahmad Al Khatib

Footprint Records

Rating: ★★★

Ahmad Al Khatib's last CD, Sabîl, was one of the most impressive solo oud recordings to have appeared in recent...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Apr/May/2015

Review of So Delicious!

So Delicious!

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

Yazoo Records

Rating: ★★★★

Following their album of gospel songs last year, So Delicious! picks up where this hard rocking country blues trio's 2012...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2015

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