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Review of Happ

Happ

Fribo

Fribo Records

Rating: ★★★

The innovative Scottish/Scandinavian/English band is happy to admit to being in something of a period of transition, Fribo sound in...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Gore (Burning)

Gore (Burning)

RUTA

Kommando

Rating: ★★★★

RUTA is an anarchic project that reveals a little-known violent aspect of Polish history. The album's sub-title Songs of Rebellion...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Aam Zameen: Common Ground

Aam Zameen: Common Ground

Kiran Ahluwalia

Top of the World

Kiran Music/Avokado Artist Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

This really shouldn't work. Take the opening track, ‘Musst Musst’, made famous by the classic version by Nusrat Fateh Ali...

Reviewed by Peter Culshaw in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Dreaming

Dreaming

Sabrina Malheiros

Far Out

Rating: ★★★

Though her star turn at the recent Scotland versus Brazil football friendly didn't, alas, garner her nearly as much press...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Doors at Eight

Doors at Eight

Peter Knight's Gigspanner

Gigspanner

Rating: ★★★

Peter Knight is the fiddle player in Steeleye Span but, since those folk– rock pioneers have been ploughing the same...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Mercato

Mercato

Imperial Tiger Orchestra

Mental Groove Records

Rating: ★★★★

It only took one minute for the Imperial Tiger Orchestra's debut album to prove its worth to this critic. It...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Sidiba

Sidiba

Bako Dag

Top of the World

Discograph

Rating: ★★★★

Ask any of your griot musicians from Mali, Senegal and the Gambia to name a favourite singer, and the one...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Canti & Musica: Anthology of Profane Songs and Music

Canti & Musica: Anthology of Profane Songs and Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ocora

Rating: ★★★★

On Corsica the human voice reigns supreme, rooted in a polyphonic tradition revived on a wave of nationalism, the riacquistu...

Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Can't Sit Down

Can't Sit Down

CJ Chenier

World Village

Rating: ★★★

CJ Chenier is the son of the late, great Clifton Chenier, the black Louisiana accordion player whose zydeco recordings on...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

Review of Wild and Free

Wild and Free

Ziggy Marley

VP Records

Rating: ★★

Despite the passing of reggae legend Bob Marley over two decades ago, his family legacy lives on. On top of...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: Nov/Dec/2011

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