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Review of Fly

Fly

Balaklava Blues

Six Degrees

Rating: ★★★★

Marichka and Mark Marczyk's Balaklava Blues was realised on the barricades during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. Inspired by the traditional...

Reviewed in issue July/2019

Review of Vildaluodda/Wildprint

Vildaluodda/Wildprint

Vildá

Bafe''s Factory

Rating: ★★★★

Hildá Länsman, a young vocalist from northern Finland's indigenous Sámi community, fuses traditional joik chant-singing with electronic pop in the...

Reviewed in issue July/2019

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 in issue July/2019

Review of Stone Soup

Stone Soup

Cormac Byrne & Adam Summerhayes

Top of the World

Extinct Records/Nimbus Alliance

Rating: ★★★★

This is an audacious piece of work by two accomplished musicians. Adam Summerhayes is a classically trained fiddler with a...

Reviewed in issue July/2019

Review of Vision & Revision: The First 80 Years of Topic Records

Vision & Revision: The First 80 Years of Topic Records

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

Topic Records grew out of the Workers' Music Association and over eight decades has consistently championed music made by working...

Reviewed in issue July/2019

Review of Guitar Maestro

Guitar Maestro

Juan Martín

FlamencOVision

Rating: ★★★★

Known as much for his books on guitar playing as his virtuosity, Spanish maestro Juan Martín possesses quite a lineage....

Reviewed in issue July/2019

Review of The Fell

The Fell

The Brothers Gillespie

The Brothers Gillespie

Rating: ★★★

Bosky and fecund, the second album from Northumberland's Brothers Gillespie is steeped in the gently lilting folk sensibility and travelling-man...

Reviewed in issue July/2019

Review of Wasser und Erde

Wasser und Erde

Akleja

Akleja

Rating: ★★★

Akleja are nyckelharpa players Regina Kunkel and Björn Kaidel (who also plays guitar and Irish bouzouki). Wasser und Erde (Water...

Reviewed in issue July/2019

Review of Nick Hart Sings Nine English Folk Songs

Nick Hart Sings Nine English Folk Songs

Nick Hart

Roebuck Records

Rating: ★★★

With a Ronseal matter-of-factness, this second album from Cambridgeshire folk singer Nick Hart does exactly what it says on the...

Reviewed in issue July/2019

Review of Dare

Dare

Banter

Mrs Casey Records

Rating: ★★

Featuring Simon Care on melodeon and concertina, with Nina Zella on keyboards and vocals, and brass and percussion from Tim...

Reviewed in issue July/2019

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