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Review of Polka for Punks

Polka for Punks

Malox

High Fidelity

Rating: ★★★

Thirty-five years on, the anarchic spirit of punk keeps emerging in unlikely places, from the Beijing underground to R.U.T.A, the...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: March/2013

Review of Plays Vasco Martins

Plays Vasco Martins

Bau

Lusafrica

Rating: ★★★

Bau has been a behind-the-scenes stalwart of Cape Verdean music ever since Cesaria Evora first put the islands on the...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2013

Review of Anthologie

Anthologie

Lili Boniche

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

An energetic and multi-talented singer and lutenist, Lili Boniche was born in the Jewish sector of the Algiers Casbah in1921...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: March/2013

Review of Singing the Mohini Attam

Singing the Mohini Attam

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Inédit

Rating: ★★★★

The Indian dancer Brigitte Chataignier has tastefully recorded and compiled an album highlighting the music of the dance Mohini Attam...

Reviewed by Rolf Killius in issue: March/2013

Review of Reggae Golden Jubilee: Origins of Jamaican Music – 50th Anniversary

Reggae Golden Jubilee: Origins of Jamaican Music – 50th Anniversary

VARIOUS ARTISTS

VP Records

Rating: ★★★★

Hot on the heels of Out of Many: 50 Years of Reggae Music (reviewed in #88) comes this 100-track box-set,...

Reviewed by Neil Foxlee in issue: March/2013

Review of Polka V

Polka V

Frigg

Top of the World

Frigg Ltd

Rating: ★★★★★

This is a five-star album. Now get out there, put your dancing shoes on and spend hour after hour with...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2013

Review of Seinn

Seinn

Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac

Turtlemusik

Rating: ★★★★

For lovers of traditional Nova Scotian folk music, it doesn't get much better than this collaboration between Scottish Gaelic singer...

Reviewed by Li Robbins in issue: March/2013

Review of papa JACA

papa JACA

Claudio Kron

Papajaca Records

Rating: ★★★

Claudio Kron is a Brazilian percussionist and composer based in the UK, who grew up in Itabuna, a small town...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2013

Review of Esfahan

Esfahan

Faraz Entessari & Fabio Tricomi

Felmay

Rating: ★★

This new album of Iranian classical music features Faraz Entessari on tar (long-necked lute), accompanied by Fabio Tricomi on various...

Reviewed by Laudan Nooshin in issue: March/2013

Review of 3 for Joy

3 for Joy

Maddy Prior with Hannah James & Giles Lewin

Park Records

Rating: ★★★★

This is a true meeting of generations. Maddy Prior has a 40-year career behind her. Violinist and piper Giles Lewin...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013

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