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Review of Lost Measures

Lost Measures

Leveret

Top of the World

Leveret

Rating: ★★★★★

Leveret (Sam Sweeney on fiddle and viola, Andy Cutting on button accordion/melodeon and Rob Harbron on English concertina) return with...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of Underwater Cairngorms

Underwater Cairngorms

Mhairi Hall & David de la Haye

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★

A collaboration between composer Mhairi Hall and field recordist David de la Haye, Underwater Cairngorms combines sounds captured from below...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of Norwegian Electronic Folk Music

Norwegian Electronic Folk Music

Kenneth Lien & Center of the Universe

heilo

Rating: ★★★★

Norway has a thriving and intriguing experimental folk scene, and multi-instrumentalist Kenneth Lien is one of its key exponents. I...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of Luna, cera e vino

Luna, cera e vino

Brigan

Liburia Records

Rating: ★★★

This is a classy album of Italian electro-folk from a trio that formed back in Caserta, north of Naples, in...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of Spire

Spire

Anmoor

homerecords.be

Rating: ★★★

“Anmoor” is defined as: “a hydromorphic humus made of an intimate blend of clay and organic matter”. Good soil, in...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of Gleann Ciùin

Gleann Ciùin

Claire M Singer

Touch

Rating: ★★★★

Singer’s Gleann Ciùin is her second album dedicated to evoking the Cairngorms. It’s framed by two epic 19-minute tracks, the...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of Nehalennia

Nehalennia

Naragonia Quartet

Trad Records

Rating: ★★★

The Belgian Naragonia Quartet is a quality act. Toon Van Mierlo and Pascale Rubens are a button accordion duo, roping...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of To Those Who Have Gone, I Sing in a Key of D

To Those Who Have Gone, I Sing in a Key of D

Dantchev:Domain

Glomama Music

Rating: ★★★★

Dantchev: Domain is a Helsinki-based quartet led by Bulgarian-Finnish singer and percussionist Anna Dantchev. She’s joined by Finnish musicians on...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of It Was Also Sometimes Daylight

It Was Also Sometimes Daylight

Merlyn Driver

Merlyn Driver

Rating: ★★★★

Part scream, part slide whistle, the call of the curlew has been a thing of comfort for Orkney native Merlyn...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

Review of araon

araon

Sian

Sian

Rating: ★★★

The second album from Scottish vocal trio Sian arrives in a whirl of complex harmonies and rousing melodies. The entwined...

Reviewed in issue December/2025

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