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Review of Anewal – The Walking Man

Anewal – The Walking Man

Alhousseini Anivolla

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★★

It’s unclear whether guitarist and vocalist Alhousseini Mohamed Anivolla has left Etran Finatawa for a solo career or if this...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2012

Review of Moreland’s Ball

Moreland’s Ball

The Woohoo Revue

The Woohoo Revue

Rating: ★★★★

Melbourne ensemble The Woohoo Revue are one of those groups that’s impossible to categorise. Most would call them a ‘Gypsy’...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2012

Review of Ethiopia Super Krar

Ethiopia Super Krar

Krar Collective

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★

The stripped-down acoustic approach taken here seems primed to deliver a raw yet updated, blast of Ethiopian blues, focusing as...

Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: October/2012

Review of Rough Guide to Caribbean Cafe

Rough Guide to Caribbean Cafe

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

The latest Caribbean music World Music Network compilation sets out to demonstrate the connections and parallels between island styles while...

Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: October/2012

Review of Tromper le Temps

Tromper le Temps

Le Vent du Nord

Top of the World

Borealis Records

Rating: ★★★★

Having released seven records during their ten years together, Le Vent du Nord are clearly not short of inspiration. The...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2012

Review of The Best of Tim Edey

The Best of Tim Edey

Tim Edey

Gnatbite Records

Rating: ★★★★

The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Musician of the Year winner gathers together here 18 of his best and most...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2012

Review of Sufi Brotherhood Chant

Sufi Brotherhood Chant

Tijaniyya & Muridiyya

Ocora Radio France

Rating: ★★★

In Senegal one immediately feels the strong presence of the mystic brotherhoods of Sufism. The taxi that takes you from...

Reviewed by Torben Holleufer in issue: October/2012

Review of Outlandish

Outlandish

Dogan Mehmet

Hobgoblin Records

Rating: ★★★

This album brings together the folk music of England and Turkey in a rich and rousing blend. Singer, violinist and...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2012

Review of Hidden

Hidden

Marry Waterson & Oliver Knight

One Little Indian

Rating: ★★★

She may have one of the most famous surnames in folk but one thing’s for certain: this isn’t, by any...

Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: October/2012

Review of La Guinéenne

La Guinéenne

Mory Kanté

Discograph

Rating: ★★★★

Youssou N’Dour might be still defined by ‘Seven Seconds’, his 1994 smash hit with Neneh Cherry, had he not gone...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2012

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