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Review of Tunes from the Backyard

Tunes from the Backyard

Eva Deivert

Gammalthea

Rating: ★★★

Eva Deivert, from Värmland in Sweden, is a long-standing and highly respected fiddle player in Sweden's folk scene. Her passion...

Reviewed in issue October/2016

Review of Daou Don Dãns

Daou Don Dãns

Bodénès – Hamon & Invités

Paker Prod

Rating: ★★★

Visitors to Brittany are almost certain to encounter a bagad, the bagpipe, drum and bombarde(shawm) bands through which, since the...

Reviewed in issue October/2016

Review of Turrys

Turrys

Ruth Keggin

Purt Sheearan Records

Rating: ★★★

Singer Ruth Keggin is a committed campaigner for the Manx language and her debut album Sheear (reviewed in #108), featuring...

Reviewed in issue October/2016

Review of Raysn: The Music of Jewish Belarus

Raysn: The Music of Jewish Belarus

Litvakus

Litvakus Records

Rating: ★★★★

This New York-based band are exploring the Jewish music of Belarus and its surrounds. The Jewish culture of the region...

Reviewed in issue October/2016

Review of Du og Eg

Du og Eg

Ingunn Stræte Lie & Jo Asgeir Lie

Kvarts Records

Rating: ★★★

By the end of this album you’ll know your reinlenders from your springars, and polkas will be second nature. Here's...

Reviewed in issue October/2016

Review of Rescued Treasure

Rescued Treasure

Semer Ensemble

Piranha Records

Rating: ★★★★

This is rescued treasure indeed. The Semer Ensemble bring back to life the previously lost recordings of Hirsch Lewin's Semer...

Reviewed in issue October/2016

Review of Antipodes

Antipodes

I Fratelli Tarzanelli

Appel Rekords

Rating: ★★

This ill-Focused collection of ‘found sound’ excerpts mixed in with live performances – conducted, presumably, on the streets – and...

Reviewed in issue October/2016

Review of Granada 1013-1502

Granada 1013-1502

Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI & La Capella Reial de Catalunya

AliaVox

Rating: ★★★★★

On his new theme album, named after Granada – the city that epitomised Muslim rule in Spain and also witnessed...

Reviewed in issue October/2016

Review of Storied Sounds

Storied Sounds

Tuulikki Bartosik

RootBeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Accordionist and composer Tuulikki Bartosik made quite an impression with her previous album, Chatterbox, with Hannah James. Her latest project,...

Reviewed in issue October/2016

Review of Live at WOMEX Budapest

Live at WOMEX Budapest

Ági Herczku & Band

Fonó Music

Rating: ★★★

Ágnes Herczku and her band, led by Nikola Parov, are standout musicians on the Hungarian folk scene, and their album...

Reviewed in issue October/2016

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