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Review of Dos Medinas Blancas

Dos Medinas Blancas

Carmen Paris & Nabyla Maan

Fol Musica

Rating: ★★★

The two white medinas of this album's title are Zaragoza and Fes, the home towns of established singer-songwriter Carmen Paris...

Reviewed by Michael Macaroon in issue: April/2018

Review of Sojourns: Volume 1

Sojourns: Volume 1

Nava

Nava

Rating: ★★★

Following 2017's Tapestry, Nava are here again to prove that Irish and Persian music are not as unlikely bedfellows as...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2020

Review of Anchor

Anchor

Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy with The Gift Band

Top of the World

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

Norma Waterson and her daughter Eliza Carthy have sung together ever since Eliza first grasped language. Perhaps that is one...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2018

Review of Fire

Fire

Midnight Skyracer

Midnight Skyracer

Rating: ★★★★

Fiery for sure, this bold, all-female, Anglo-Irish bluegrass quintet have made quite a start to their career. They formed in...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: April/2018

Review of Fathoms

Fathoms

The Furrow Collective

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★

Each of them is an acclaimed solo artist in their own right, but together, The Furrow Collective continue to be...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2019

Review of Diamonds on the Water

Diamonds on the Water

Oysterband

Navigator Records

Rating: ★★★★★

After two years touring and picking upa brace of awards for Ragged Kingdom, Oysterband's reunion collaboration with June Tabor, Diamonds...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Apr/May/2014

Review of The Great Jamaican Songbook, Vol 1

The Great Jamaican Songbook, Vol 1

Cleveland Watkiss

Cdubya Music/CDUB 1

Rating: ★★

Cleveland Watkiss is known both as a gifted jazz vocalist and a founding member of Metalheadz – the drum’n’bass outfit...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: May/2022

Review of Thamesis

Thamesis

Mishaped Pearls

Mishaped Pearls

Rating: ★★★

If you like your folk music sophisticated, self-confident and highly original, read on. The third album from this über-cool London...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2014

Review of ARC

ARC

Michael McGoldrick

Vertical Records

Rating: ★★★★

Although this is only McGoldrick's fifth solo album in 22 years and his first since 2010, the genial Manchester-based flute,...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2018

Review of Trikala

Trikala

Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti

Slap the Moon Records

Rating: ★★★★

One wonders whether in a past life Simon Thacker was a Bengali itinerant Baul mystic musician, or perhaps a South...

Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: March/2019

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