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Review of Bandázom

Bandázom

Ágnes Herczku

Top of the World

Fonó Music

Rating: ★★★★

Ágnes Herczku is one of Hungary's best folk vocalists and has become even better-known since she's been a judge and...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of Einpikkar’n

Einpikkar’n

Ulf-Arne Johannessen

Etnisk Musikklubb

Rating: ★★★★

A member of Norway's famous traditional dance-troupe FRIKAR, Ulf-Arne Johannessen is a national champion of the halling dance, one designed...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of Bilingua

Bilingua

Eithne Ní Uallacháin

Gael Linn

Rating: ★★★★

Sung in Irish and English, Eithne Ní Uallacháin's posthumous solo debut is a thing of rich and rare beauty. Drawn...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of Trikitixaren Historia Txiki Bat

Trikitixaren Historia Txiki Bat

Kepa Junkera & Sorginak

Fol Musica

Rating: ★★★★

Kepa Junkera will be 50 in April. He has been playing trikitixa, the effervescent diatonic accordion music of the Basques,...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of Suas Síos

Suas Síos

Kíla

Kíla Records

Rating: ★★★★

Kíla's tenth studio album Suas Síos (Up, Down) finds those redoubtable champions of Dublin's musical melting pot returning to rousing,...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of Lo Testament

Lo Testament

Mara Aranda i Solatge

Bureo Músiques

Rating: ★★★

In the UK, you’re unlikely to hear ancient music outside of interludes in Shakespeare's plays or themed medieval banquets. But...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of When the Day is on the Turn

When the Day is on the Turn

Dallahan

Dallahan

Rating: ★★★★

Formed in December 2013, Edinburgh-based, Irish-Hungarian outfit Dallahan arrived on Scotland's live circuit with all cylinders firing. This is their...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015

Review of Tomorrow Will Follow Today

Tomorrow Will Follow Today

Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman

Iscream Music Records

Rating: ★★★

A young man refuses to sleep with his uncle's wife. She stabs herself and blames the boy. His uncle has...

Reviewed in issue March/2015

Review of The Search for Five Finger Frank

The Search for Five Finger Frank

Pete Coe & Alice Jones

Backshift Music (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★

This mammoth set – 27 tracks in all – aims to rescue from obscurity the memory of Leeds folk-song collector...

Reviewed in issue March/2015

Review of Tradition 2.1

Tradition 2.1

Korrontzi

ARC Music (CD & DVD)

Rating: ★★

Embedded in ‘Iskitzeko Aldian’, the track right at the heart of this album, is part of a radio broadcast from...

Reviewed in issue March/2015

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