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Review of Awakening

Awakening

Ímar

Big Mann Records

Rating: ★★★

Glasgow-based Anglo-Iranian Scot Mohsen Amini (concertina) and bandmates Tomas Callister (fiddle), Adam Rhodes (bouzouki), Ryan Murphy (uillean pipes, flute and...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Archangel Hill

Archangel Hill

Shirley Collins

Domino Records

Rating: ★★★★

Close to Shirley Collins’ home in Lewes, Sussex, is Mount Caburn, a hill topped by an Iron Age fort, that...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of What to Do, How to Live?

What to Do, How to Live?

Lakiko

Lakiko Records

Rating: ★★★★

Swiss resident Lana Kostić is a cellist trained in Western Art Music, a member of the Bosnian diaspora, an experimenter...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Speak of the Devil

Speak of the Devil

Dallahan

Dallahan Music

Rating: ★★★★

Dallahan aficionados will want to know that the Edinburgh-based quartet's fourth studio album suggests something of a new beginning as...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Balkan Express

Balkan Express

Bjonko

No Bounds Music

Rating: ★★★

Following the recent fusion-oriented album Enigma, Danish reedsman Bjonko Stosic and band return with a more traditional take on the...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Best of

Best of

Kris Drever

Reveal Records

Rating: ★★★★

As well as his years with Lau – five studio albums and numerous live sets – Drever has had an...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of The Devil's on the Mast

The Devil's on the Mast

The Ciderhouse Rebellion & Kirsty Merryn

Under the Eaves Records

Rating: ★★★★

The prolific folk duo, fiddler Adam Summerhayes and accordionist Murray Grainger, have joined forces on their latest release with singer...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay

Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay

Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

There's an almost timeless, specifically British strain of pastoralism conjured on this second collaboration between acoustic guitarists Jim Ghedi (six-string)...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Medna Roso

Medna Roso

PJEV, Kit Downes & Hayden Chisholm

Red Hook Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This is the kind of inter-cultural collaboration I can get into. Too often, such projects are the mooncalves of questions...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of The World and All That It Holds

The World and All That It Holds

Damir Imamović

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★

There are some critics out there – and I am not one – who maintain that Damir Imamović is heir...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

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