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Review of Karja-La

Karja-La

Sväng

Top of the World

Galileo

Rating: ★★★★★

A touch of Howlin’ Wolf, hints of anarchic fiddle playing, traditional Baltic runo song, and a jumping minuet: prepare yourself...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Review of Isula Ranni

Isula Ranni

Unavantaluna

Finisterre Records

Rating: ★★★★

Sharing a Sicilian background, the members of Rome-based Unavantaluna cohesively weave the island's traditional style and repertoire, sung in dialect,...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Review of Grace Bay

Grace Bay

Tommy McCarthy & Louise Costello

Copperplate

Rating: ★★★

Offspring of noted figures in their native West Clare and County Galway, the husband-and-wife team of Tommy McCarthy and Louise...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Review of Danzas Brancas

Danzas Brancas

Orquestra Folk SonDeSeu

Fol Musica

Rating: ★★★

SonDeSeu, led by veteran composer Rodrigo Romaní, is a sprawling folk orchestra that combines a quintet of gaitas with armies...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Review of Agua en la Boca

Agua en la Boca

María Berasarte

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★★

We tend to think of fado as an uncompromising, impassioned, dark-hued genre. María Berasarte was born in San Sebastian, sings...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Review of Louder Than Words

Louder Than Words

The Henry Girls

Beste! Unterhaltung

Rating: ★★★★

After playing together as The Henry Girls for more than a decade, sisters Karen, Lorna and Joleen McLaughlin from County...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Review of The Moral of the Elephant

The Moral of the Elephant

Martin & Eliza Carthy

Top of the World

Topic

Rating: ★★★★★

We’ve heard them together in Waterson:Carthy, but this is the first time father and daughter have recorded as a duo,...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Review of In a Box

In a Box

Megson

EDJ Records

Rating: ★★★

The name of husband-and-wife duo Megson is now familiar on the English folk circuit. Their first studio album in four...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Review of Music from Romania

Music from Romania

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Caprice Records

Rating: ★★

These recordings were made by the celebrated musicologist Deben Bhattacharya in 1965, the year Nicolae Ceauşescu came to power. It...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Review of Live at 10: The 10th Anniversary Concert

Live at 10: The 10th Anniversary Concert

Beoga

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★★

A decade after their debut album, County Antrim's Beoga are celebrating with a lively and satisfyingly long anniversary CD and...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

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