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Review of Bura

Bura

Raphael Rogiński & Ružičnjak Tajni

Top of the World

Instant Classic

Rating: ★★★★

Raphael Rogiński’s latest is a collaboration with Ružičnjak Tajni, his new group of Serbian musicians, including Tijana Golubović (violin) and...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Review of Ilmateade

Ilmateade

Duo Ruut

Top of the World

Self release

Rating: ★★★★

Over the last couple of years, Estonia’s Duo Ruut have performed in over 20 countries, including Glastonbury and Roskilde this...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Review of Tech Duinn

Tech Duinn

Cushla

Foehn Records

Rating: ★★★★

Emerging from the creative collaboration between Catalan music-maker Marc Fernández and Irish composer-producer Leo Pearson, Tech Duinn features at its...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Review of Neu Om

Neu Om

Amanda Mur

La Castanya

Rating: ★★★★

Amanda Mur’s debut album spins like a richly gothic journey through the netherworld. Ranging from ambience to avant garde, the...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Review of Ar Lagad-Bleiz

Ar Lagad-Bleiz

Spontus

Klam Records

Rating: ★★

Breton dance quartet Spontus are renowned for the proficiency of their playing. In their music, violin, bass, acoustic guitar and...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Review of Elan

Elan

The Gentle Good

Bubblewrap Records

Rating: ★★★★

A confessed city boy, Gareth Bonello, aka The Gentle Good, wrote this album during a year-long residency in Wales’ Elan...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Review of Glaschu – Songs to a City

Glaschu – Songs to a City

Màiri MacMillan

Màiri MacMillan

Rating: ★★★★

Native Gaelic speaker Màiri MacMillan transforms three decades of Glasgow life into a stunning musical tribute with her new album...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Review of Scenes from uniXia

Scenes from uniXia

boci

Tree Being Records

Rating: ★★★★

boci describes her second, even more esoteric, album as a psycho-magical concept set in her own world, uniXia: “During a...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Review of Transform Me Then Into A Fish

Transform Me Then Into A Fish

Martin Carthy

HemHem Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Carthy celebrates his 84th birthday on May 21 with a new album that echoes, after 60 years, his first. Transform...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Review of Eilifð

Eilifð

Anúna

Danú

Rating: ★★★

Formed in 1987 by the composer Michael McGlynn, Anúna have become surely the best-known vocal group (he doesn’t like to...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

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