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Review of LAUTyodeln: Fern-Nah-Weit

LAUTyodeln: Fern-Nah-Weit

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Trikont Records

Rating: ★★★★

This is a selection of the finest yodels performed at LAUTyodeln, a festival in Munich last June. It displays the...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2017

Review of Live at Celtic Connections

Live at Celtic Connections

Duncan Chisholm

Copperfish Records

Rating: ★★★★

Having spent six years creating and recording The Strathglass Trilogy, his ambitious three-album instrumental tribute to the land where his...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2014

Review of Live at Vai Te Mihi

Live at Vai Te Mihi

Yoyo Tuki

Yoyo Tuki

Rating: ★★★★

The Pacific’s Rapa Nui – popularly known as Easter Island – is one of the most remote inhabited islands in...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2022

Review of Europeana

Europeana

Jaune Toujours

Choux de Bruxelles

Rating: ★★★

Jaune Toujours are the rambunctious and eclectic Belgian sextet led by singer and accordionist Piet Maris. This is their first...

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

Review of Under the Rose Tree

Under the Rose Tree

Derya Türkan & Sokratis Sinopoulos

Music & Words

Rating: ★★★

As a disciple of Ross Daly and a player of the lyra (bowed lute) Sokratis Sinopoulos was always going to...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2018

Review of The Worst is Yet to Come: Best Of 1995-2017

The Worst is Yet to Come: Best Of 1995-2017

Los Plantronics

Jansen

Rating: ★★

Norway's Los Plantronics have been rocking for more than 20 years now, hence this double CD or double-vinyl compilation. The...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2018

Review of Mundum Renovavit

Mundum Renovavit

Windstreken

I-C-U-B4-T

Rating: ★★★

The Dutch word windstreken can be translated as ‘points of the wind’ and ‘corners of the world’. The ensemble consists...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: Jan/Feb/2014

Review of ¡Saoco! Vol 2

¡Saoco! Vol 2

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Vampisoul

Rating: ★★★★

With its subtitle, Bomba, Plena and the Roots of Salsa in Puerto Rico 1955¬1967, this second big Vampisoul sampler tries...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Review of Out in La La Land

Out in La La Land

Martha Spencer

Music Maker

Rating: ★★★★★

Martha Spencer is from deep in the Appalachian folk tradition. So deep that she lives on top of a lonely...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: August/2024

Review of Nothing Can Stop Us

Nothing Can Stop Us

Cornell Campbell Meets Soothsayers

Strut

Rating: ★★★★

Cornell Campbell has had a long and illustrious career that includes stints as a studio vocalist for such legendary producers...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2013

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