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Review of The Gloaming

The Gloaming

The Gloaming

Top of the World

Real World Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Their live performances last summer positioned The Gloaming as one of the most exciting developments in Irish traditional music in...

Reviewed in issue March/2014

Review of Word of Mouth

Word of Mouth

Seth Lakeman

Cooking Vinyl

Rating: ★★★

Most musicians, when they make an album, head for a recording studio full of sophisticated equipment. Seth Lakeman has an...

Reviewed in issue March/2014

Review of Through the Eyes of the Sun

Through the Eyes of the Sun

Belonoga

Top of the World

Elen Music

Rating: ★★★★

Bulgarian singer Gergana Dimitrova will be familiar to many as a member of the women’s vocal ensemble, the Eva Quartet....

Reviewed in issue March/2014

Review of Romology

Romology

Kal

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Belgrade’s Kal – who consist essentially of guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Dragan Ristic and various sidemen – attracted much attention...

Reviewed in issue March/2014

Review of Tales from a Forgotten City

Tales from a Forgotten City

Mostar Sevdah Reunion

Top of the World

Snail Records/World Connection

Rating: ★★★★

The forgotten city of this CD’s title is, of course, Mostar itself, once a tolerant city of Christians, Muslims and...

Reviewed in issue March/2014

Review of Knee-Deep in Heaven

Knee-Deep in Heaven

Janusz Prusinowski Trio

Oriente Musik

Rating: ★★★★

Led by fiddler Janusz Prusinowski, this trio are the leading group behind the revival of traditional music in Poland. The...

Reviewed in issue March/2014

Review of Mezo: Field

Mezo: Field

Félix Lajkô

Fono

Rating: ★★★

Serbian Hungarian Félix Lajkô is one of Europe’s most remarkable violin players – a true virtuoso, but a quixotic and...

Reviewed in issue March/2014

Review of Hirta Songs

Hirta Songs

Alasdair Roberts & Robin Robertson

Stone Tape Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

In 2007, Scottish poet Robin Robertson made the long, arduous sea voyage to St Kilda. Not all of him returned....

Reviewed in issue March/2014

Review of Cerdd Dannau

Cerdd Dannau

Gwenan Gibbard

Sain Records

Rating: ★★★

Welsh poetry is famously complex, its success depending on the strict deployment of stress, rhyme and alliteration. Welsh traditional music...

Reviewed in issue March/2014

Review of Lay Your Dark Low

Lay Your Dark Low

Salt House

Make Believe Records

Rating: ★★★★

This four-piece really do knock out a great song. They’re tight, confident and manage to make folk music sound contemporary...

Reviewed in issue March/2014

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