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Review of Kjeringe i Snodrevet

Kjeringe i Snodrevet

Lise Lunde Brennhagen

Etnisk Musikklubb

Rating: ★★★★

The langeleik is one of the more unusual members of an instrumental family that can be loosely described as ‘plank...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Review of Anthology of Moravian Folk Music Vol 3: Straznicko a Kyjovsko

Anthology of Moravian Folk Music Vol 3: Straznicko a Kyjovsko

Petr Micka

Indies Happy Trails

Rating: ★★★

The first albums here are the final two volumes of the four-part Anthology of Moravian Folk Music. Moravia has very...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Review of The Thrush in the Storm

The Thrush in the Storm

Dervish

Top of the World

Whirling Discs

Rating: ★★★★★

It's been five years since the last studio offering from Irish supergroup Dervish, which makes The Thrush in the Storm...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Review of Eureka!

Eureka!

La Pegatina

Kasba Music

Rating: ★★★

Barcelona has long been a hotbed of musical experimentation, producing an almost ridiculously long list of top artists from rumba...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Review of The Liberty to Choose

The Liberty to Choose

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Fellside Recordings

Rating: ★★★

The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, compiled by Ralph Vaughan Williams and A L Lloyd, was published in 1959....

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Review of Welcome to the Family

Welcome to the Family

Project Rakija

BGL Boulie Records

Rating: ★★★

Bosnian guitarist Igor Sekulović grew up in Banja Luka, loving the sevdah music his mother and aunts sang. He ended...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Review of Vagrant Stanzas

Vagrant Stanzas

Martin Simpson

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

The inspiration for Vagrant Stanzas came, according to Simpson, from sessions at the kitchen table with his neighbour Richard Hawley,...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Review of Sotaque

Sotaque

Budiño

Fol Musica

Rating: ★★★

The Galician gaita, like its Celtic forebears the Scottish bagpipes and Irish uilleann pipes, produces rough-edged, high-pitched melodies that dance...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Review of Turbines

Turbines

Tunng

Full Time Hobby

Rating: ★★★

Flux is the keyword in Tunng's story, from its 2003 beginnings as a loose East London collective through to the...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Review of Smile Som Sumarsole

Smile Som Sumarsole

Firil

Etnisk Musikklubb

Rating: ★★★

Hallingdal is a Norwegian valley whose music is traditionally dominated by the Hardanger fiddle, and hailing is the name of...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

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