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Review of Ville Veier

Ville Veier

Erlend Viken Trio

Heilo / Grappa Musikkforlag

Rating: ★★★★

Erlend Viken Trio’s latest album, Ville Veier (Wild Ways), marks a dynamic return. Known for their improvisational flair rooted in...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of Great Joy to the New

Great Joy to the New

Janice Burns & Jon Doran

Janice Burns & Jon Doran

Rating: ★★★★

Great Joy to the New opens with ‘Derby Ram’, the surprisingly upbeat story of a gargantuan sheep and the gloriously...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of Al Foc

Al Foc

ROS

Segell Microscopi

Rating: ★★

Ricard Ros plays the traditional sac de gemecs, the Catalan bagpipe, and the backbone to the music he now develops...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of A Ukrainian Wedding

A Ukrainian Wedding

Cappella Romana & Nadia Tarnawski

Top of the World

Cappella Records

Rating: ★★★★

The order of a modern wedding has become standardised across the world: an engagement followed by a wedding ceremony with...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of Giorgos Katsaros

Giorgos Katsaros

Giorgos Katsaros

Mississippi Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This is both a fabulous historical document and a musical treat from the rebetika heyday of Greek émigrés to the...

Reviewed in issue January/2025

Review of Lost Things Returning

Lost Things Returning

We Are Muffy

Country Mile Records

Rating: ★★

This is the second outing with the Cornwall-based, Birmingham-raised alt-folk duo Angeline Morrison and Nick Duffy. Following their debut, which...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Vento do Mar

Vento do Mar

Cacha Mundinho

Mundus Productions

Rating: ★★★★

This soulful album has the seamless feel of a longtime collaboration, rather than the debut production that it is. Portuguese...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of The Shovel Dance

The Shovel Dance

Shovel Dance Collective

American Dreams

Rating: ★★★

Lankum aren’t the only purveyors of doom-laden folk. London-based nine-piece Shovel Dance Collective show with this, their second album, that...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Betwixt & Between 11

Betwixt & Between 11

Bridget & Kitty/Resonant Bodies

Betwixt & Between Tapes

Rating: ★★★

Betwixt & Between Tapes is a quirky, niche proposition: an occasional series of cassette tape EPs featuring traditional, improvised and...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Umbelliferæ

Umbelliferæ

Kate Young

Kate Young

Rating: ★★★★

Inspired by her love of aromatic plants, the traditions of folk and classical music, and her own chromesthesia (‘ability to...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

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