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Review of Lifa Iotungard (Live)

Lifa Iotungard (Live)

Heilung

Season of Mist

Rating: ★★★★

For German Kai Uwe Faust, Dane Christopher Juul and Norwegian Maria Franz, who record together as Heilung, a live album...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Parlour Ballads

Parlour Ballads

Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★

Parlour ballads, as a genre, get poor press as low-grade, middle-class Victoriana, but here’s Jon Boden at the piano (and...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Latem (Summertime)

Latem (Summertime)

WoWaKin & Guests

Baba Studio

Rating: ★★★★

WoWaKin are a Polish trio playing violin, three-row accordion and drums with all the verve and vivacity of a village...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Sotali

Sotali

Pettersson & Fredriksson

Nordvis Produktion

Rating: ★★★★

Swedish folk duo Pettersson & Fredriksson originally released this set in 2010 and present it here for the first time...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of In the Dark We Grow

In the Dark We Grow

Hannah Saunders & Ben Savage

Sungrazing Records

Rating: ★★★★

The folk duo’s fourth album, In the Dark We Grow, steers away from the compelling introspective spareness of 2022’s Ink...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Chasing Light

Chasing Light

Henry Parker & David Ian Roberts

Cup & Ring

Rating: ★★★

Self-described trad/psych/Baroque-folk guitarist-songwriter Henry Parker and folk-guitarist-songwriter David Ian Roberts have produced a lovely collection of original acoustic fingerpicking songs....

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Vertigo

Vertigo

Jaune Toujours

Choux de Bruxelles

Rating: ★★★

Jaune Toujours are a brass-heavy Belgian big band who’ve been active for over 25 years. This is their ninth album...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Langt, Langt Vekk

Langt, Langt Vekk

Kanaan & Ævestaden

Jansen Reccords

Rating: ★★★★

Ævestaden are known for their delicate, hypnotic folktronica. Fellow Norwegians Kanaan are a psychedelic rock trio. That the two bands...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Arcs & Rivers

Arcs & Rivers

Joel Lyssarides & Georgios Prokopiou

Top of the World

ACT

Rating: ★★★★★

I’ve encountered the bouzouki in a number of different contexts: rebetika, laïko, Irish traditional music and various eastern-Mediterranean crossover ensembles,...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996

Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Light in the Attic

Rating: ★★★★

American label Light in the Attic, which specialises in publishing rare music, now release a compilation of Ukrainian music from...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

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