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Review of Rangeele

Rangeele

Kailash Kher

Saregama

Rating: ★★★

Rangeele is Kailash Kher's fourth album with the band Kailasa, which he set up with brothers Paresh and Naresh Kamath...

Reviewed by Kulbir Natt in issue: June/2012

Review of Elo

Elo

Maria Rita

Warner

Rating: ★★

Four years after her last album, Samba Meu, Elis Regina's daughter (as she now allows herself to be called) returns...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: June/2012

Review of Schimpelsberger Circle of Sound

Schimpelsberger Circle of Sound

Soumik Datta & Bernhard

Top of the World

Baithak

Rating: ★★★★

Soumik Datta is Britain's most exciting sarod player, both in Indian classical and new experimental music. This disc, with Austrian-born...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2012

Review of The Mutiny

The Mutiny

Sunday Driver

Bakul Bagan Records

Rating: ★

If there is a word that sums up this collective founded in Cambridge by husband-and-wife duo Joel Clayton (guitar and...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2012

Review of Astor Piazzolla

Astor Piazzolla

Fugata Quintet

Fugata

Rating: ★★★★

The praise lavished on the three late Astor Piazzolla albums on Nonesuch is in part due to producer Kip Hanrahan's...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2012

Review of Rocket Juice & The Moon

Rocket Juice & The Moon

Rocket Juice & The Moon

Honest Jon''s

Rating: ★★★★

It's hard to underestimate the impact Damon Albarn has had on traditional concepts of what constitutes ‘world music’, via such...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2012

Review of Batida

Batida

Batida

Top of the World

Soundway

Rating: ★★★★

At full volume, this will rip your speakers off the walls and it doubtless tears up the dance floor wherever...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: June/2012

Review of Jonah

Jonah

Calan

Sain

Rating: ★★★

Calan's avowed intent – according to their press release, at least – is ‘to give traditional music in Wales a...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2012

Review of The Bariba Sound

The Bariba Sound

Le Super Borgou de Parakou

Analog Africa

Rating: ★★★★★

There have been some great music reissues from Benin in recent years – particularly the compilations African Scream Contest and...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2012

Review of The Boréales Sound of Northern Europe

The Boréales Sound of Northern Europe

Majorstuen

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

This five-piece fiddle band from Norway got together a dozen years ago, meeting when most of them were studying at...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2012

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