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Review of El Mar de Mi Ventana

El Mar de Mi Ventana

Niño Josele

Warner Music Spain

Rating: ★★★★

Flamenco guitarist Niño Josele has made some fascinating excursions into jazz, particularly his exploration of pianist Bill Evan’s music on...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Cille Bhrìde (Kilbride)

Cille Bhrìde (Kilbride)

Kathleen MacInnes

Kathleen MacInnes Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Cille Bhride builds on the huge success of Kathleen Maclnnes’ Ò g-Mhadainn Shamhraidh, and whilst the album doesn’t fully reach...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

Review of 20

20

Kate Rusby

Pure Records

Rating: ★★

Kate Rusby joined her parents’ ceilidh band while she was still a child so was a seasoned performer when her...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Diversions Vol 3: Songs from the Shipyards

Diversions Vol 3: Songs from the Shipyards

The Unthanks

RabbleRouser Music

Rating: ★★★★

In a remarkably prolific year for The Unthanks, this album follows hard on the heels of their mighty collaboration with...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

Review of LIVE – Olympiahalle München

LIVE – Olympiahalle München

LaBrassBanda

Trikont

Rating: ★

LaBrassBanda hail from Bavaria, and this homecoming concert found them playing to 12,000 fans. You read that correctly: not 1,200...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

Review of The Rough Guide to the Music of Scandinavia

The Rough Guide to the Music of Scandinavia

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

This compilation takes a broad view of Scandinavia, going beyond the usual Norway/Sweden/ Denmark configuration and taking in fellow Nordic...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Blight and Blossom

Blight and Blossom

Blair Dunlop

Rooksmere Records

Rating: ★★★★

Leader of the new-generation Albion Band, son of folk¬rock guv’nor Ashley Hutchings and the child actor who played the young...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Bande Italiane

Bande Italiane

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Network Medien

Rating: ★★★★

Look at a map of southern Europe, think raucous brass bands and you’re probably drawn to the Balkans – Serbia...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Z is for Zykopops

Z is for Zykopops

Z Kao Zajkopops

Z Kao Zajkopops

Rating: ★

This sounds like a half-baked student project that shouldn’t have gone beyond the confines of Zagreb University. It’s a shame,...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

Review of Affric

Affric

Duncan Chisholm

Top of the World

Copperfish Records

Rating: ★★★★

Chisholm was born and raised in Inverness, in the Scottish Highlands. He learned under the late, great fiddler player, composer...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013

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