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Review of El Rumor de los Tangos

El Rumor de los Tangos

Trio Garufa

Garufa

Rating: ★★

This album gave me an epiphany – of the wrong kind. Yale professor Robert Farris Thompson once wrote, ‘if nostalgia...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2012

Review of Especial Ivete, Gil, Caetano

Especial Ivete, Gil, Caetano

Ivete Sangalo, Gilberto Gil & Caetano Veloso

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★

Whilst most lovers of Brazilian music will be familiar with tropicalia founders Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, fewer will know...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: October/2012

Review of The Tel Aviv Session

The Tel Aviv Session

The Touré-Raichel Collective

Top of the World

Cumbancha

Rating: ★★★★

From the opening notes of Vieux Farka Tomé's spare acoustic guitar riff, backed by fellow Souleymane Kane's gently tapped calabash...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: October/2012

Review of Nicola Conte Presents Viagem 4

Nicola Conte Presents Viagem 4

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Far Out

Rating: ★★★

With his consistently excellent Viagem series, Italian jazz don Nicola Conte has compiled some of the richest, strangest and most...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: October/2012

Review of Archipelago

Archipelago

Fiona MacKenzie

Greentrax

Rating: ★★★

These are songs from the Scottish islands, from Shetland in the north to Ailsa Craig in the south, sung in...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2012

Review of Guwak

Guwak

East Journey

East Journey

Rating: ★★★

The first thing most listeners would think upon hearing young Aboriginal band East Journey is that we’ve heard this before....

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2012

Review of The Road to Berryville

The Road to Berryville

Furnace Mountain

Furnace Mountain

Rating: ★★★★

It’s a rare album that grabs you with every track, but Appalachian quartet Furnace Mountain have managed it with The...

Reviewed by Olivia Haughton in issue: October/2012

Review of International Soundclash

International Soundclash

Sofrito

Strut

Rating: ★★★★

The music collective Sofrito have once again teamed up with Strut following the success of their 2011 release Sofrito: Tropical...

Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: October/2012

Review of Bossa Muffin

Bossa Muffin

Flavia Coelho

Discograph

Rating: ★★★

Billed as a ‘traveller's diary’, Bossa Muffn sees Brazilian singer/ acoustic guitarist Flavia Coelho conduct a roots trip back from...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2012

Review of Diversions Volume 2

Diversions Volume 2

The Unthanks with Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band

RabbleRouser Music

Rating: ★★★★

Having fairly recently moved to West Yorkshire, I have to agree with Unthanks pianist and composer Adrian McNally that brass...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2012

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