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Review of Sentimento Popolare

Sentimento Popolare

Camilla Barbarito

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

Camilla Barbarito's musical journey is a rich and meandering one: as a young girl she spent time in Mali, and...

Reviewed by Megan Iacobini de fazio in issue: April/2019

Review of Lust

Lust

Louisa Lyne & Di Yiddishe Kapelye

Maestro Music

Rating: ★★★

Winning Der Idisher Idol 2019 has brought Louisa Lyne and her group Di Yiddishe Kapelye into prominence. Released on September...

Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of Murmuration

Murmuration

Coracle

Tam Records

Rating: ★★★

Coracle are accordionist Paul Hutchinson, formerly of the beloved Belshazzar’s Feast with the late Paul Sartin, plus singer and multi-instrumentalist...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2023

Review of Paradise

Paradise

Dub Inc

Diversité

Rating: ★★

Dub Inc are a multicultural force in French music, famous at home for giving Saint- Étienne’s Algerian minority a place...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: June/2014

Review of Philos

Philos

Park Jiha

tak:til

Rating: ★★★★

On her 2018 debut Communion, Park Jiha played an array of ancient Korean instruments including the piri, a double-reed bamboo...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Review of The Sound of Telemark

The Sound of Telemark

Sigmund Groven & Knut Buen

heilo

Rating: ★★★★

Drive three hours west of Oslo and nature beckons. There are farms, trees laden with red apples in late summer,...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: April/2021

Review of Under the Shade of Violets

Under the Shade of Violets

Orange Blossom

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★

The French electronica-meet-world-music outfit known as Orange Blossom had been off the radar for a whole ten years until they...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2015

Review of The Rough Guide to the Music of the Mediterranean

The Rough Guide to the Music of the Mediterranean

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★

Though quite pleasant listening, this CD isn’t a comprehensive cross-section of Mediterranean music, but rather a disparate collection of genres...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2013

Review of Live at the Old Fruitmarket

Live at the Old Fruitmarket

RURA

Rura Music

Rating: ★★★★★

Live at the Old Fruitmarket marks an incredible ten years for the band, a decade that has seen many changes...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2020

Review of Not Leaving Quietly

Not Leaving Quietly

Joe Broughton’s Conservatoire Folk Ensemble

Birmingham City University

Rating: ★★

A track on a folk album led by a bassoon! That’s a rare pleasure. In ‘Hole in the Wall/Nabo’, the...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2021

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