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Review of France: An Anthology of Traditional Music

France: An Anthology of Traditional Music

Various Artists

Frémeaux et Associés FA5260

Rating: ★★★★

It's become a cliché when writing about cultural diversity in France to trot out the old de Gaulle maxim about...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

Review of The Glamoury

The Glamoury

Emily Portman

Furrow Records FUR002

Rating: ★★★★

A powerful contemporary approach to the traditional ballad, from which she fashions a vivid and poetic set of original songs,...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

Review of O Skaros: Flute Music

O Skaros: Flute Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

AIMP VDE Gallo CD1280

Rating: ★★★

Three distinct pastoral flutes, made of wood or reed, h a ve traditionally been played in Greece: the floyera and...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

Review of Growing Up

Growing Up

Tsuumi Sound System

Tsuumi Sound System TSS001

Rating: ★★★★★

I remember descri– bing Tsuumi Sound System's last album (reviewed in #49) as a work of genius: a lesson in...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

Review of Yn Fyw

Yn Fyw

Y Glerorfa

Live Sain SCD2607

Rating: ★★★

This is a heart-warming disc. It's the recording of a performance in Caernarfon – the heart of Welsh Wales –...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

Review of Cimbalomduó

Cimbalomduó

Kálmán Balogh & Miklós Lukács

Folk Europa FECD 045

Rating: ★★★

The subtitle of this disc – ‘Cimbalom for Four Hands’ – is slightly misleading. It suggests cimbalom duets on one...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

Review of The Desperate Battle of the Birds

The Desperate Battle of the Birds

Breabach

Top of the World

Breabach Records BRE001CD

Rating: ★★★★

The second album from one of today's top young Scottish folk acts shares its arresting name with a well-known piobaireachd...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

Review of Their First Album

Their First Album

Incredible String Band

Fledg''ling Records FLED 3079

Rating: ★★★

The first four albums by the Incredible String Band summon up the spirit of the far side of the 60s...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

Review of Cirkari

Cirkari

Zingaros

ARC Music EUCD2266

Rating: ★★★

Zingaros are an Argentinian trio specialising in local interpretations of Gypsy and East European classics. Musicians in Eastern Europe have...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

Review of Skir

Skir

Majorstuen

Majorstuen Fiddlers Company MFC03

Rating: ★★★

As all the tracks here are instrumental, you can only imagine what lies behind them. Thankfully, we have the short...

Reviewed in issue June/2010

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