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Category: Album reviews

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Scottish Superband Capercaillie Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Splendid New Album

Angel Romero November 21, 2013 No Comments

Capercaillie At the Heart of It All (Compass Records/Vertical Records VERTCD100, 2013) Scottish band Capercaillie has been making some of the finest contemporary folk music…

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Rock, Ballads, Spiritual Journeys and Fusion

Madanmohan Rao November 18, 2013 No Comments

Valentine Shipley The Wandering Mystic: Rustic Indian Echoes (Times Music) From rock and ballads to spiritual journeys and fusion, Delhi veteran Valentine Shipley has another…

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Senegal’s Visionary Pioneer of Salsa and Mbalax

Angel Romero November 15, 2013 No Comments

Mar Seck Vagabonde – From Super Cap-Vert to Number One: Unreleased Recordings 1969-1980 (Teranga Beat, 2013) During the 1970s, Cuban music was extremely was extremely…

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The Savagely Satisfying Sound Collisions of Esko Jarvela Epic Male Band

TJ Nelson November 12, 2013 No Comments

Esko Jarvela Epic Male Band Esko Jarvela Epic Male Band (Sibelius Academy Folk Music Recordings, 2013) To get a little more information on the Esko…

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The Allure of Malagasy Blues Song

Angel Romero November 4, 2013 No Comments

Lala Njava Malagasy Blues Song (World Music Network, 2013) Malagasy Blues SongSong is the new release by Lala Njava, one of the most unique vocalists…

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Resilient Desert Blues

TJ Nelson November 1, 2013 No Comments

Tartit with Imharhan Live from the Sahara (Clermont Music, 2013) Set for release on November 12th on the Clermont Music label, two groups of the…

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Refrigerated Reggae

Tom Orr October 31, 2013 No Comments

Alific – Echoes From the Soul (Rootfire Records, 2013) Gaudi – In Between Times (Six Degrees Records, 2013) Combining reggae and its spacey subgenre dub…

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A Modern Upgrade to Exotica

TJ Nelson October 24, 2013 No Comments

Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica Quartet Where Here Meets There (BMI, 2013) For those who are fans of exotica or Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica’s 2010 debut album The…

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The Inspiringly Detailed Musical Ideas of Modern Acadians

Angel Romero October 23, 2013 No Comments

Vishtèn Mosaïk (2012) Canadian trio Vishtèn presents a wonderful mix of traditional music from francophone Canada and the Celtic sounds of Irish and Scottish origin.…

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Notable Cross-cultural Collaborations

Madanmohan Rao October 22, 2013 No Comments

Various Artists One World, Many Cultures (Putumayo, 2006) This is a superb Putumayo compilation, top of our pick this month. Duets seem all the rage…

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