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Review of Tördelős

Tördelős

Dresch Quartet

Fonő Records

Rating: ★★★

Sax and flute player Mihály Dresch is the leading figure in Magyar jazz and he formed his first quartet in...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Gatehouse

Gatehouse

Tús Nua

Gael Linn

Rating: ★★★

Meaning ‘New Beginnings’, Tús Nua are an aptly named quartet, as they step onto the traditional scene for the first...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Aïta Productions

Rating: ★★★★

The musicians of Brittany and Ireland have long held each other in high musical esteem and nowhere is this admiration...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of The Tinker's Dream

The Tinker's Dream

Chris Murphy

Teahouse Records

Rating: ★★

Although The Tinker's Dream is ostensibly a solo album, it sounds very much the product of a group. Chris Murphy,...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of The Voice of Suka

The Voice of Suka

Maria Pomianowska

Top of the World

For Tune

Rating: ★★★★★

This is a remarkable album. Maria Pomianowska is a Polish fiddle player who collaborates with musicians all over the world;...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Galanìas

Galanìas

Actores Alidos

Finisterre

Rating: ★★★

Twelve years since Canti Delle Donne Sarde, the stunning debut from the female quintet who briskly defied the island's traditionally...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Svod: Traditional Songs from Serbia and the Balkans

Svod: Traditional Songs from Serbia and the Balkans

Bilja Krstic & Bistrik Orchestra

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

ARC Music is developing into one of the foremost record labels releasing new Balkan recordings – having issued excellent efforts...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Forge

Forge

Inlay

Inlay

Rating: ★★★★

This young four-piece came together on the music course at the University of East Anglia and the expansiveness of the...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of All Covered with Moss

All Covered with Moss

Alison Perkins & Nicolas Brown

Alison Perkins & Nicola Brown

Rating: ★★★★

All Covered with Moss, the debut offering from Detroit, Michigan-based duo Alison Perkins and Nicolas Brown, arrives as the pair...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Simultaneous Flight Movement

Simultaneous Flight Movement

Laura Cannell

Brawl Records

Rating: ★★★★

One musician, a violin, a recorder and a lighthouse are hardly the typical ingredients of an album. Laura Cannell's Simultaneous...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

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