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Review of Silence is Bliss

Silence is Bliss

Naveen Kumar

Mirrorball Entertainment

Rating: ★★★

Although he is best known for his work on some of Indian cinema's most celebrated soundtracks – including AR Rahman's...

Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: March/2016

Review of Reprobates

Reprobates

Blackbeard's Tea Party

BTP Records

Rating: ★★★★

‘The Steam Arm Man’, which opens this new set from the rock’n’ceilidh barnstormers from York, sports a Black Sabbath-style riff...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2016

Review of The Road

The Road

Mamak Khadem

Top of the World

Innova

Rating: ★★★★

I first came across Mamak Khadem when I reviewed her solo album Jostojoo in 2008. A couple of years later,...

Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2016

Review of Zarabi

Zarabi

Oum

MDC

Rating: ★★★

The Moroccan/Saharawi singer Oum El Ghaït has followed up her 2013 album Soul of Morocco – her first international release...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2016

Review of Problemas

Problemas

Grupo Fantasma

Top of the World

Blue Corn Music

Rating: ★★★★

For their first studio album since 2010's Grammy-winning El Existential, this Austin nine-piece have abandoned their DIY approach and contracted...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2016

Review of Belenzuka Fallen from the Sky

Belenzuka Fallen from the Sky

Tomka Paunovic, Dragica Žunic, Miloljub Šakovic & Miroljub Raketic

WMAS

Rating: ★★★★

The two pairs of singers on this uncompromising recording – one male and one female – come from south-eastern Serbia...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2016

Review of Aheym: Homeward

Aheym: Homeward

Sklamberg & the Shepherds

Sklamberg & the Shepherds

Rating: ★★★★

Each member of this trio brings serious klezmer credentials with them. Merlin Shepherd's clarinet playing can also be heard with...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2016

Review of Rumba con Flores

Rumba con Flores

Eliane Correa & En el Aire Project

Cezanne Producciones

Rating: ★★★

This young, classically trained pianist, composer and arranger shares her time between London, Barcelona and Havana, and her creative energies...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: March/2016

Review of Caieira

Caieira

Tamy

Zip Records

Rating: ★★

Perhaps record label marketing departments know better, but the generic blandness of cover shots such as the one gracing this...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: March/2016

Review of Baladi Blues Reloaded Volume II

Baladi Blues Reloaded Volume II

Guy Schalom

Ethnomusic Records

Rating: ★★★★

Remixes are like recipes: it may be possible to create something thrilling out of very little but it really helps...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: March/2016

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