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Review of Fifty Verses

Fifty Verses

Melrose Quartet

Melrose Quartet

Rating: ★★★★

In 2010 Nancy Kerr & James Fagan (winners of Best Duo at the BBC Folk Awards) found life on their...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2013

Review of Hawaii to Calcutta: A Tribute to Tau Moe

Hawaii to Calcutta: A Tribute to Tau Moe

Debashish Bhattacharya

Top of the World

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Bhattacharya is an extraordinary musician. He may be best known for inventing the slide guitars that allow him to play...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2017

Review of Mashasha

Mashasha

Mashasha

Elegwa Music

Rating: ★★★★

Peter ‘Mashasha’ Mujuru is a Zimbab–wean bass guitarist, session musician and member of jazz group Too Open. He currently lives...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2012

Review of Untitled

Untitled

Hedy West

Fledg''ling Records

Rating: ★★

A lost album from 1979, Untitled was recorded by the American singer, banjo player and guitarist Hedy West at the...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: June/2019

Review of Highland Time

Highland Time

Sketch

Skye Records

Rating: ★★★

Opener ‘After the Storm’ shows where we’re heading: a crisp rhythm track overlaid with pipes and fiddle and a deranged...

Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: May/2016

Review of Grannen

Grannen

Frigg

Frigg

Rating: ★★★★★

Frigg can do no wrong. I have waxed lyrical about them in these pages in the past and am beginning...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Vivir Sin Miedo

Vivir Sin Miedo

Buika

Warner

Rating: ★★★

Concha Buika, a Spanish singer of Equatorial Guinean descent, walks a narrow, obstacle-strewn path between styles, cultures and languages. Sometimes...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2016

Review of Fifty Five

Fifty Five

Dan Trueman

Many Arrows Music

Rating: ★★★

Is it the magical sound of the Hardanger fiddle, or its association with Norwegian folklore that has attracted performers and...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2021

Review of AmarElo

AmarElo

Emicida

Sterns Music

Rating: ★★★★

The release of AmarElo was preceded by a run of singles, each very different to the last, which left me...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: May/2020

Review of Silence is Bliss

Silence is Bliss

Naveen Kumar

Mirrorball Entertainment

Rating: ★★★

Although he is best known for his work on some of Indian cinema's most celebrated soundtracks – including AR Rahman's...

Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: March/2016

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