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Review of Metta

Metta

Damian Helliwell's Metta

Eigg Records

Rating: ★★★

Damian Helliwell, better known as a member of Gaelic Dàimh, has launched his new project, Metta, in collaboration with a...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Whiskey Cambodia

Whiskey Cambodia

Cambodian Space Project

Metal Postcard

Rating: ★★★

For their third album, Cambodian Space Project have traversed the Pacific and landed in the Motor City, to team up...

Reviewed by Edward Craggs in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Live à L’Étoile

Live à L’Étoile

Dexter Johnson & Le Super Star de Dakar

Teranga Beat

Rating: ★★★★

Although born in Nigeria, saxophonist Dexter Johnson was a seminal figure in Senegalese music. He wound up in pre-independence Dakar...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Tango, Noche y Guitarra

Tango, Noche y Guitarra

Rudi Flores

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

Paris-based Argentinian guitarist Rudi Flores takes standards and classics from tango, chamamé, valse and milonga, and replaces all the busy...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of African Woman

African Woman

Sia Tolno

Top of the World

Lusafrica

Rating: ★★★★

Sia Tolno was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Life for her was no bed of roses: her father was a...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of I’m a Stranger Here

I’m a Stranger Here

The Devil Makes Three

New West Records

Rating: ★★★

If Nirvana had been a rockabilly band from rural Vermont, they would have sounded something like The Devil Makes Three....

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Inspiration

Inspiration

Jah Wobble Presents: PJ Higgins

Sonar Kollektiv

Rating: ★★★★

You wait and wait for a PJ Higgins album and then two come along at once. Although, while this Jah...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of El Valle de la Infancia

El Valle de la Infancia

Dino Saluzzi Group

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

A son, a brother and a nephew join Argentinian bandoneón (squeezebox) virtuoso Dino Saluzzi for this latest offering from the...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Anti Hero

Anti Hero

Circle of Sound

Baithak Records

Rating: ★★★★

On the follow-up album to Soumik Datta and Bernhard Schimpelsberger's deservedly praised debut album, the pair widen their musical vision,...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of A Thousand Hearts

A Thousand Hearts

Cara Dillon

Charcoal Records

Rating: ★★★★

Five year's after Cara Dillon's last studio album, 2009's Hill of Thieves, comes A Thousand Hearts, a brittle and beautiful...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

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