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Review of Jelszó

Jelszó

Félix Lajkó & Budafoki Dohnányi Zenekar

Fonó

Rating: ★★★★

Lajkó is one of Europe's most talented and most adventurous violinists. Hungarian-speaking, but Serbian-born, he transcends musical borders, ranging from...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Review of In a Cosmic Ear

In a Cosmic Ear

Re Niliu

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

Up until their dissolution in the mid-1990s, Calabria's Re Niliu had been diving deep into traditional Italian peasant music, growing...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Review of BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015

BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Proper Records

Rating: ★★★

This year's Folk Awards release ranges widely and somewhat surprisingly: there's Peggy Seeger, in her 80s singing not a rousing...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Review of 7 Fish

7 Fish

Kelly Thoma

Kelly Thoma

Rating: ★★★★

This is Kelly Thoma's second solo album and, like her debut Anamkhara, it reveals her to be among the most...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Review of Sikoses

Sikoses

Monsieur Doumani

Top of the World

Monsieur Doumani

Rating: ★★★★

The Nicosia-based trio Monsieur Doumani have returned with a truly sterling effort on their second album. It features reworkings of...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Review of Stories Sung, Truths Told

Stories Sung, Truths Told

Tir Eolas

Tir Eolas

Rating: ★★★

Recorded in just one week in summer 2014 and produced by Jim Moray, Stories Sung, Truths Told ably shows off...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Review of Let's Get Low

Let's Get Low

Duotone

Garrett Brown Music

Rating: ★★★

This album by English cellist and singer-songwriter Barney Morse-Brown marks the beginning of what might be a more poppy sound....

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Review of The Longest River

The Longest River

Olivia Chaney

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★★

Olivia Chaney released EPs in 2010 and 2013, contributed towards the Peter Bellamy tribute album Oak Ash and Thorn, and...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Review of The Bell That Never Rang

The Bell That Never Rang

Lau

Top of the World

Reveal Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Captivating, exquisite, stunning. The excitable flurry of deserving superlatives that followed Lau's live performances with the Elysian Quartet were even...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Review of High Rise

High Rise

David Grubb

Shake’um’Dud

Rating: ★★★

The debut album from a Scottish fiddler and composer whose ‘Fiddle Tune a Day’ YouTube project presented a new tune...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

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