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Review of Folly

Folly

Mary Hampton

Teaspoon Records

Rating: ★★★

Listening to Folly, I'm reminded of Tunng's absorption with the childlike, with a particularly English sense of innocence mixed with...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2011

Review of Afrosoul

Afrosoul

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★

The Ways we discover new music can research artists online. If you are unsure what you want to research, there...

Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Sky Songs

Sky Songs

Alena Murang

Alena Murang

Rating: ★★★

Alena Murang is a singer and sapé player from Sarawak on the island of Borneo, Malaysia. One of the indigenous...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: July/2021

Review of Three Cane Whale

Three Cane Whale

Three Cane Whale

Idyllic Records

Rating: ★★★

This debut from multi¬instrumentalist trio Three Cane Whale is a warming cinematic landscape of music vignettes, recorded in a Bristol...

Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: March/2012

Review of I Would Not Live Always

I Would Not Live Always

John Francis Flynn

Top of the World

River Lea

Rating: ★★★★

I Would Not Live Always opens with a brief burst of burbling electronics before the traditional ballad ‘Lovely Joan’ weighs...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2021

Review of El Bardo

El Bardo

Aldo del Rio

Sunnyside Records

Rating: ★★

Complete with standard-issue retro graphics, here is another senior discovery from Cuba by a gringo record company, in this case...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2014

Review of Another Day, Another Story

Another Day, Another Story

James Findlay

Fellside Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

There is a purity and precision to James Findlay’s rendering of songs and tunes from the English folk tradition. He...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Front Porch Sessions

Front Porch Sessions

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

Family Owned Records

Rating: ★★★★

Anyone who has heard the grind and growl of the Indiana three-piece that is The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: June/2017

Review of Cold Weather Music

Cold Weather Music

Paul Tasker

Yellowroom Music

Rating: ★★

A skilled and tasteful guitarist, Paul Tasker has taken time out from his band, the Doghouse Roses, to craft a...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Review of Cross Cultural X-periment: The Vanguard

Cross Cultural X-periment: The Vanguard

Alexander Fedoriouk

Folk Sounds Records

Rating: ★★

Alexander Fedoriouk is a Ukrainian cimbalom player, currently living in Cleveland, Ohio. The cimbalom is the hammered dulcimer of Eastern...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2021

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