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Review of Alborada

Alborada

Uji

ZZK Records

Rating: ★★★★

Following the trend of digital cumbia, South America's electronic underground music has gone spiritual, adding chants from Ayahuasca rituals and...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2018

Review of EnCantado

EnCantado

Carolina

Sony Music

Rating: ★★★

Twenty years ago, it would have been impossible to predict that there would be such a surge of young fado...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2018

Review of OberTany

OberTany

Zawierucha

Top of the World

Fundacja Czas Tradycji

Rating: ★★★★★

Zawierucha are a new Polish folk band whose name translates as ‘Turmoil/Storm’. With two violins, double bass and a drum...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021

Review of Characters

Characters

Flo Perlin

Flo Perlin

Rating: ★★★

Flo Perlin may cite diverse musical influences, given her extensive world travel and her Iraqi and Belarusian heritage, but in...

Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: October/2021

Review of Glaschu: Home Town Love Song

Glaschu: Home Town Love Song

Mary Ann Kennedy

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

Gaelic songstress Mary Ann Kennedy returns with 16 tracks inspired by her home town – and a real labour of...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2019

Review of 30: Real World at WOMAD

30: Real World at WOMAD

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Real World

Rating: ★★★

You might expect a compilation of Real World artists who have played at WOMAD over the last 30 years to...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2012

Review of Anchor

Anchor

Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy with The Gift Band

Top of the World

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

Norma Waterson and her daughter Eliza Carthy have sung together ever since Eliza first grasped language. Perhaps that is one...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2018

Review of Thamesis

Thamesis

Mishaped Pearls

Mishaped Pearls

Rating: ★★★

If you like your folk music sophisticated, self-confident and highly original, read on. The third album from this über-cool London...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: July/2014

Review of Trikala

Trikala

Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti

Slap the Moon Records

Rating: ★★★★

One wonders whether in a past life Simon Thacker was a Bengali itinerant Baul mystic musician, or perhaps a South...

Reviewed by Fiona Mactaggart in issue: March/2019

Review of Pondelorum

Pondelorum

Eoin Dillon

Eoin Dillon

Rating: ★★★★

Long celebrated as the founder of Irish traditional group Kíla, Eoin Dillon's lyrical uilleann pipe and whistle playing provides the...

Reviewed by Rachel Cunniffe in issue: March/2017

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