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Review of A Day Like Tomorrow

A Day Like Tomorrow

Fabian Holland

Rooksmere Records

Rating: ★★★★

Fabian Holland has been praised for his guitar playing, which is fluid, elegant and blues-tinged but not over-elaborate. The same...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Review of Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay

Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay

Fotheringay

Universal

Rating: ★★★★★

It's titled Nothing More because there is nothing more by Fotheringay out there than the 52 tracks on this three-CD...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Review of Charms Against Sorrow

Charms Against Sorrow

Hannah Sanders

Sungrazing Records

Rating: ★★★

Hannah Sanders spent much of her teens traversing the land in an old Bedford school bus, singing the traditional songs...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Review of With the Dawn

With the Dawn

Bella Hardy

Noe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Bella Hardy's new album begins with the track ‘The Only Thing to Do’, a striking and beautiful ballad addressing love...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

Review of Sheear

Sheear

Ruth Keggin

Purt Sheearan Records

Rating: ★★★

Not long ago, UNESCO was forced to change its classification of the Manx language from ‘extinct’ following protests from some...

Reviewed in issue June/2015

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

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