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Review of The Adventures of Captain Ward

The Adventures of Captain Ward

The Demon Barbers

Demon Barbers DBS003

Rating: ★★★

The Demon Barbers’ live reputation goes before them, cemented by their Best Live Act award at the BBC Radio 2...

Reviewed in issue July/2010

Review of Soma

Soma

John McSherry

Compass 745382

Rating: ★★★★

The Belfast uilleann piper John McSherry sprang to fame with the band Tamalin in the 1990s, before moving on to...

Reviewed in issue July/2010

Review of Songar frå Havdal

Songar frå Havdal

Unni Boksasp

TA:LIK TA42CD

Rating: ★★★★

I was lucky enough to take part in a workshop a couple of years ago led by the Norwegian singer...

Reviewed in issue July/2010

Review of And Then We Saw Land

And Then We Saw Land

Tunng

Full Time Hobby FTH088CDA

Rating: ★★★

Tunng's fourth album took them over a year to write and follows the departure of founder member and songwriter Sam...

Reviewed in issue July/2010

Review of A Beginner’s Guide

A Beginner’s Guide

Jim Moray

Niblick is a Giraffe NIBL009

Rating: ★★★★

Readers of Songlines will already be familiar with Jim Moray’s latest CD, In Modern History, which was pre¬released with the...

Reviewed in issue July/2010

Review of The Turning Tide

The Turning Tide

Solas

Compass 745302

Rating: ★★

Crikey, another Solas album? It seems only a moment ago that I reviewed the band’s For Love and Laughter. OK,...

Reviewed in issue July/2010

Review of Hearts & Minds

Hearts & Minds

Seth Lakeman

Virgin/Relentless CDREL21

Rating: ★★★

Hearts & Minds begins with a riff reminiscent of Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranoid’. Which is somewhat surprising, given that Lakeman described...

Reviewed in issue July/2010

Review of La Belle Etoile

La Belle Etoile

Babylon Circus

Akirira CAP059

Rating: ★★★★

Bands with numerous members have a certain attraction, often making you wish you were part of their line-up: The Pogues...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

Review of Soot

Soot

Boot

Caprice CAP21817

Rating: ★★

The fiddle-tune traditions of Scandinavia, Ireland and the US generally work their magic via simple tunes. Sometimes their simplicity is...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

Review of Zumra

Zumra

Amira & Merima Kljuco

World Village 450012

Rating: ★★★★

Amira Medunjanin is Bosnia's most charis– matic contemporary singer of sevdah – the lyrical but melancholy song form that has...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

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