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Review of Big Like This

Big Like This

The Unusual Suspects

Big Bash Records

Rating: ★★★★

When Corrina Hewat and David Milligan boldly launched this folk big-band back in 2003 they recruited a Who’s Who of...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: March/2011

Review of Farafinko

Farafinko

Aly Keita

Contre-Jour

Rating: ★★★★

In case he’s not been picked up on your personal radar yet, Aly Keita is a balafon (xylophone) player from...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: March/2011

Review of FELA! Original Broadway Cast Recording

FELA! Original Broadway Cast Recording

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Knitting Factory Records/Kalakuta Sunrise

Rating: ★★

Every musical should have a soundtrack album which can be bought by people who loved the show so much that...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: March/2011

Review of Dendere Ngoma (Music Nest)

Dendere Ngoma (Music Nest)

Spirit Talk Mbira feat. Chartwell Dutiro

Ingoma

Rating: ★★★★

A promoter in Holland had booked [Spirit Talk Mbira] thinking that the band was full of African people ‘ recalls...

Reviewed by Tom Bullough in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Watching the Well

Watching the Well

Jon Thorne & Danny Thompson

Naim

Rating: ★★★★

Naim is a jazz label with an outstanding contemporary artist roster and a reputation for top-flight sound quality and production....

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Music from Entre Douro e Vouga

Music from Entre Douro e Vouga

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ocora

Rating: ★★★

In contrast to the extraordinary field recordings by Michel Giacometti and José Alberto Sardinha all over Portugal during the second...

Reviewed by Gongalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Up From The Deep

Up From The Deep

Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts

GR! Records

Rating: ★★★

Nominated for a BBC Horizon Award for best new act in 2010, and both graduates of the Leeds College of...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of World Massala

World Massala

Terrakota

Ojo Música

Rating: ★★★

Manu Chao was probably the first internationally recognised artist to really nail world fusion – from his early days rocking...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Mozafar Shafii & the Râst Ensemble

Mozafar Shafii & the Râst Ensemble

Mozafar Shafii & the Râast Ensemble

Ocora

Rating: ★★★

Iranian singer Mozafar Shafii was an early student of the well-known Mohammed Reza Shajarian. So Shafii is senior to the...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Love and Death

Love and Death

Ebo Taylor

Strut Records

Rating: ★★★

This is the first ever internationally released studio album from Ebo Taylor, now 74 and one of the legends of...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

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