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Review of Tãn

Tãn

Lleuwen

Gwymon Records

Rating: ★★★

Singer Lleuwen Steffan first made her mark in 2005 with Duw a Wyr (God Only Knows) an original, jazzy take...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of Foxlight

Foxlight

larla Ó Lionáird

Real World

Rating: ★★

It's taken the County Cork-born former Afro Celts singer six years to follow up his staggeringly visceral Invisible Fields, which...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of Liguriani

Liguriani

Liguriani

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

A strip of mixed people and sounds, Liguria lies in Italy's north-west, a region squeezed between rugged hill tops and...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of Line-Up

Line-Up

Battlefield Band

Temple Records

Rating: ★★★

Like Fairport Convention, Battle– field Band have a good four decades of music-making behind them, drawing on the rich heritage...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of How to Tune a Fish

How to Tune a Fish

Beoga

Compass Records

Rating: ★★

Just four years since the Irish band's debut A Lovely Madness comes Beoga's fourth album How to Tune a Fish...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of Wayside Courtesies

Wayside Courtesies

Pilgrims’ Way

Fellside Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Formed in a pub under the Stockport viaduct, this rough and ready young trio interpret classics of the English folk...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of Kalakan

Kalakan

Kalakan

KML

Rating: ★★★★

In the Basque country, cider drinking is never so exciting as when the call to celebrate the new pressing is...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of There Are Birds in My Garden

There Are Birds in My Garden

David Gibb

Hairpin Records

Rating: ★★★

This second album from the 20-year-old Derbyshire musician reveals a talent and a sense of adventurousness in terms of instrumentation...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of Beginner's Guide to Scandinavia

Beginner's Guide to Scandinavia

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Nascente

Rating: ★★★★

Strictly speaking, Scandinavia consists of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, but compiler Tatiana Rucinska has opted here to defer to common...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of The Works

The Works

Spiers & Boden

Navigator Records

Rating: ★★★★

John Spiers and Jon Boden are best-known now as the musical masterminds at the heart of folk-burlesque big-band Bellowhead. They...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

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