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Review of Komme No Heim

Komme No Heim

Jon Anders Halvorsen

Etnisk Musikklubb

Rating: ★★★★

If you don’t know your stev from your lokk, or your skillingsviser from your bygdevise, have No fear. Jon Anders...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Grey Falcon

Grey Falcon

Svetlana Spajic Group

Multimedia Music

Rating: ★★★★

Svetlana Spajic has been researching and performing the village music of Serbs in Serbia itself and further afield for many...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Pizzica Indiavolata

Pizzica Indiavolata

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino

Top of the World

Ponderosa Music & Art

Rating: ★★★★

There's no question that this spirited, acclaimed seven-piece acoustic ensemble is the vanguard of the effervescent present-day musical scene in...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Money Isn’t Everything

Money Isn’t Everything

Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra

Tea Pad Orchestra

Rating: ★★★

They may be based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne but Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra have fallen for old-time Americana hook,...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Arriva la Banda!

Arriva la Banda!

BandAdriatica

Finisterre

Rating: ★★★★

The music of Salento’s BandAdriatica is redolent of endless voyages around the winding Adriatic Sea on a ship where different...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Amaratch Musica

Amaratch Musica

uKanDanZ

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★

EthioSonic is the sister series to Ethiopiques, documenting modern Ethiopian influenced sounds from around the globe, no matter whether it’s...

Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Serenata

Serenata

Zé Luis

Lusafrica

Rating: ★★★

In her most talismanic song, ‘Sodade, the late Cesaria Evora forever defined the pain of separation experienced by a generation...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of La Cantiga del Fuego

La Cantiga del Fuego

Ana Alcaide

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Madrid-born Ana Alcaide went to Sweden to study as a biologist and came back to Spain to become a professional...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Wulu Wulu

Wulu Wulu

Bongos Ikwue & Double X

Bik Records

Rating: ★★

A decade away from music seems to have given veteran Nigerian bandleader Bongos Ikwue a new lease of life. The...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Dawning

Dawning

Saffron

Tames Records

Rating: ★★★★

We all know the path of fusion is strewn with many pitfalls. What sounds good in theory often lacks coherence...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Apr/May/2013

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