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Review of Live Wires

Live Wires

Söndörgő

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

Having spent too long wandering in debilitating heat to track down the Tambura Museum in Slavonski Brod (in eastern Croatia),...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: December/2016

Review of An Introduction to Eliza Carthy

An Introduction to Eliza Carthy

Eliza Carthy

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

Eliza Carthy's current combo is The Wayward Band. It's a good name: she has, throughout her career, championed English folk...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Review of The Newpart

The Newpart

April Verch

Slab Town Records

Rating: ★★★

Canadian fiddler, singer and step dancer April Verch has been a figure on the Canadian folk scene since the early...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2015

Review of Nordic Raga

Nordic Raga

Jyotsna Srikanth, Mats Edén, Dan Svensson & Pär Moberg

Riverboat Records

Rating: ★★★

The fiddle traditions of Sweden and southern India are both long established but are as far apart, musically and...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: May/2018

Review of River Waiting

River Waiting

Connla

Connla Music

Rating: ★★★★

If last year's self-titled four-track teaser from Northern Ireland quintet Connla introduced an outfit of promise, their debut long-player confirms...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: November/2016

Review of Upon a Stranger Shore

Upon a Stranger Shore

Maz O’Connor

Demon Barber Sounds

Rating: ★★

O’Connor is a member of a big folk family from Cumbria – her brother Joe’s band Last Orders won the...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of The Missing Star

The Missing Star

Lunatraktors

Broken Folk Records

Rating: ★★★★

Carli Jefferson and Clair Le Couteur, aka Lunatrakrors, are an intriguing duo. Based in Margate, they are exponents of what...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2021

Review of Akal Warled

Akal Warled

Imarhan Timbuktu

Clermont Music

Rating: ★★★

Mix the hypnotic call-and-response vocals and tinde hand-drums of the Touareg troupe Tartit with the electric guitars, rocking rhythms and...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Quachatta

Quachatta

Samech

Tzadik Records

Rating: ★★★

This Polish-Jewish four-piece takes its name from the Hebrew letter Samec, a circle that represents infinity. The band’s website tells...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of Imphilo

Imphilo

Bholoja

Top of the World

One World Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Even though Swaziland has been renamed Eswatini, Bholoja – real name Mbongiseni Ngubane – remains the king of ‘Swazi Soul’,...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/February/2024

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