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Review of Memory Islands

Memory Islands

Ellie Wilson

Bigo and Twigetti

Rating: ★★★★

Ellie Wilson is an explorer of the contemporary classical, folk and electronica worlds, and her new album, Memory Islands, documents...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Gula Gula

Gula Gula

Mari Boine

By Norse

Rating: ★★★★★

Fragile, urgent and strong, Gula Gula reveals itself within the first 20 seconds of the title-track as one of the...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Orion

Orion

Dina Ögon

Top of the World

Playground Music

Rating: ★★★★

Orion is the third album from Scandinavian soul group Dina Ögon (Your Eyes). What do they sound like? Well, this...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of The Colour of Amber

The Colour of Amber

Nick Hart & Tom Moore

Slow Worm Records

Rating: ★★★★

Following his terrific Nick Hart Sings… series, award-winning folk singer, musician and steward of English folk song Hart returns in...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Terry Riley in C Irish

Terry Riley in C Irish

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Louth Contemporary Music Society

Rating: ★★★★★

1960s’ minimalist guru Terry Riley’s quixotic masterpiece ‘In C’ filtered through the prism of Irish traditional music? On paper it...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Away Beyond the Fret

Away Beyond the Fret

Honey & The Bear

Honey & The Bear

Rating: ★★★

East Anglian husband and wife duo Lucy and Jon Hart have coincided their third album with the birth of their...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of The King of Misery

The King of Misery

Daudi Matsiko

Daudi Matsiko

Rating: ★★★★

Daudi Matsiko, a British-Ugandan singer-songwriter, delivers a debut album from a vulnerable chapter in his life, that expands what is...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of All That Remained

All That Remained

Lucidvox

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

If there was any naiveté on show in Lucidvox’s last album, We Are, it has surely been worn away by...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Udolç

Udolç

Alba Careta & Henrio

Segell Microscopi

Rating: ★★★★

The Càntut collection is a project dedicated to collecting and disseminating music orally transmitted in the region of Girona, in...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Review of Cuckoo Storm

Cuckoo Storm

Marry Waterson & Adrian Crowley

One Little Independent

Rating: ★★★

Marry Waterson has delivered an eclectic array of duet recordings over the past decade or so, from 2011’s The Days...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

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