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Review of Seanchas

Seanchas

Danú

Danú

Rating: ★★★

The title of Danú’s last album, 2005’s When All is Said and Done, turned out to be prescient since it...

Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: March/2011

Review of Masters of Indian Classical Music Volume II

Masters of Indian Classical Music Volume II

VARIOUS ARTISTS

ARC Music EUCD2257

Rating: ★★★★

This double–CD set follows on from an earlier compilation from ARC featuring more or less the same group of musicians...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: Apr/May/2010

Review of Edyf

Edyf

Cerys Hafana

Cerys Hafana

Rating: ★★★

Queer Welsh composer and multi-instrumentalist Cerys Hafana is acknowledged as a fearless explorer of the creative possibilities and unique qualities...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2022

Review of The Last Communiqué

The Last Communiqué

Ghazi Abdel Baki

Forward Music

Rating: ★★★

The Last Communiqué is the final part of a trilogy of albums by the Beirut-based composer, guitarist, singer and vocalist...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2011

Review of Lodestar

Lodestar

Shirley Collins

Domino Records

Rating: ★★★★

In 1959 Shirley Collins collected songs with Alan Lomax in the US. But she loved the songs of the English...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

Review of Toca Madera

Toca Madera

Papawa

Ventilador Music CDA070

Rating: ★★★★

Of all the music made in Barcelona over the last 50 years it is rumba flamenco (aka rumba Catalan) that...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2010

Review of The Glamoury

The Glamoury

Emily Portman

Furrow Records FUR002

Rating: ★★★★

A powerful contemporary approach to the traditional ballad, from which she fashions a vivid and poetic set of original songs,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2010

Review of Antifogmatic

Antifogmatic

Punch Brothers

Nonesuch Records 7559 798 057

Rating: ★★★★

Pleasant as it is to hear banjos and mandolins on prime-time national radio, it’s a shame that they will invariably...

Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Review of Song Hành

Song Hành

Onno Krijn & Ngo Hong Quang

Noon Records

Rating: ★★★

This is the first collaboration between the Vietnamese singer and instrumentalist Ngo Hong Quang and the Dutch composer and arranger...

Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: June/2012

Review of Finding Anyplace

Finding Anyplace

Ozere

Ozere

Rating: ★★★

There are quite a few groups currently out there whose music has one foot in the chamber ensemble and one...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

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