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Review of Himlen Har Sove Bort Mørkret

Himlen Har Sove Bort Mørkret

Sigrid Moldestad

Grappa

Rating: ★★★★

Sigrid Moldestad is highly respected for her fiddle and Hardanger playing, not to mention her singing. For years she’s been...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

Review of Breathe

Breathe

Laura-Beth Salter

Shee Records

Rating: ★★★

Laura-Beth Salter, one-sixth of the all– women group The Shee, first performed the songs and music that make up this,...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

Review of Grippy Grappa

Grippy Grappa

Monsieur Doumani

Top of the World

Monsieur Doumani

Rating: ★★★★★

The trio Monsieur Doumani formed a couple of years ago in Cyprus with Angelos lonas on guitar and vocals, Demetris...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

Review of The Rough Guide to Flamenco

The Rough Guide to Flamenco

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network (2 CDs,)

Rating: ★★★

It is a huge challenge to do justice to an entire culture with a single CD. You have to decide...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

Review of Single Flame

Single Flame

Lucy Ward

Navigator

Rating: ★★★

This is the Derby– born singer’s follow-up to 2011’s Adelphi Has to Fly. Since then, she’s been part of the...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

Review of La Increíble Historia de un Hombre Bueno

La Increíble Historia de un Hombre Bueno

DePedro

Warner Music

Rating: ★★★

DePedro is the nom do guorro of Spanish guitarist and singer Jairo Zavala, an experienced sideman and session musician with...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

Review of Fiddlers/Quiet Rapture

Fiddlers/Quiet Rapture

Juuri & Juuri

Aania (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★★

I love Juuri & Juuri. I love the honesty of their music, their passion for their musical heritage, I love...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

Review of Floating Letters

Floating Letters

Tsuumi Sound System

Tsuumi Sound System

Rating: ★★★★

I’ve waxed lyrical about Tsuumi Sound System in the past, praising them for their brilliant approach to bringing together Finnish...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

Review of Greek Rhapsody: Instrumental Music from Greece, 1905-1956

Greek Rhapsody: Instrumental Music from Greece, 1905-1956

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Dust-to-Digital (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★★★

Greek Rhapsody is an organic, if indirect, extension of a 2005 collaboration between British musician and archivist Tony Klein and...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

Review of Fifty Verses

Fifty Verses

Melrose Quartet

Melrose Quartet

Rating: ★★★★

In 2010 Nancy Kerr & James Fagan (winners of Best Duo at the BBC Folk Awards) found life on their...

Reviewed in issue October/2013

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