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Review of Arirang and Minyo Singing

Arirang and Minyo Singing

Lee Chun-Hee

Ocora Radio France

Rating: ★★★★

Lee is a singer who has been deemed so culturally significant that the South Korean government awarded her the prestigious...

Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: July/2014

Review of Bailar en la Cueva

Bailar en la Cueva

Jorge Drexler

Warner Music

Rating: ★★★★

Bailar en la Cueva (Dance in the Cave) starts much like any other Jorge Drexler album; the Uruguayan's gentle voice...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2014

Review of At Home

At Home

Sakar Khan

Top of the World

Amarrass Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This album certainly has an arresting start. Sakar Khan saws his bow across the strings of his kamancha and repeats...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2014

Review of Sendero Místico

Sendero Místico

Sonido Gallo Negro

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★

Bands such as Chicha Libre and Los Chinches have already shown that chicha – essentially cumbia with guitars – sounds...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2014

Review of The Rough Guide to African Blues

The Rough Guide to African Blues

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★

What goes around comes around. African music was transported across the Atlantic in slave ships and came to soundtrack the...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2014

Review of Les Esprits Écoutent: The Spirits are Listening

Les Esprits Écoutent: The Spirits are Listening

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

There are stunning sounds on this compilation of music by Siberian indigenous peoples, drawn from Buda's Siberia CD series, which...

Reviewed by Carole Pegg in issue: July/2014

Review of Louder Than Words

Louder Than Words

The Henry Girls

Beste! Unterhaltung

Rating: ★★★★

After playing together as The Henry Girls for more than a decade, sisters Karen, Lorna and Joleen McLaughlin from County...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2014

Review of The Rough Guide to Indian Classical Music

The Rough Guide to Indian Classical Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

This album features a line-up of some distinguished musicians of North and South Indian music, two distinct classical traditions. Among...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: July/2014

Review of Metal Metal

Metal Metal

Metá Metá

Top of the World

Mais Um Discos

Rating: ★★★★★

Who knows if it was anarchic perverseness, artistic vision, or a bit of both that prompted this formidable São Paulo...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: July/2014

Review of The Moral of the Elephant

The Moral of the Elephant

Martin & Eliza Carthy

Top of the World

Topic

Rating: ★★★★★

We’ve heard them together in Waterson:Carthy, but this is the first time father and daughter have recorded as a duo,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2014

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