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Review of Renaissance

Renaissance

Gipsy Kings Tonino Baliardo

Wienerworld

Rating: ★★★★

Tonino Baliardo, one of the founding members of Gipsy Kings, is back with his first album in more than eight...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Despite the Wind and Rain

Despite the Wind and Rain

Rachel Walker & Aaron Jones

Ròs Dearg Records

Rating: ★★★

Despite the Wind and Rain is the first album from the duo of Gaelic singer-pianist Rachel Walker and singer and...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Fiddle Tunes

Fiddle Tunes

Elise Boeur & Adam Iredale-Gray

Top of the World

Fiddlehead Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This album's modest title reflects the pure reverence, unmitigated by contemporised showiness, with which these instrumentalists approach music from Ireland,...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Que-vive!

Que-vive!

Compagnie Rassegna

Buda Musique

Rating: ★

Compagnie Rassegna are a band based in the south of France, led by guitarist Bruno Allary. They are also involved...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Polaris

Polaris

Folkatomik

ItalySona

Rating: ★★★★

Turin-dwelling musicians of southern Italian descent (Oreste Forestieri, Franco Montanaro and Valeria Quarta), delve into traditional forms from the southern...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Blackletter Garland

Blackletter Garland

Hack-Poets Guild

One Little Independent

Rating: ★★★★

The Hack-Poets Guild are Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and composer and sound designer Nathaniel Mann. Working with Sound UK Arts,...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Tamoj

Tamoj

Bastarda & Sutari

Audio Cave

Rating: ★★★

The Polish group Sutari have always said their music (and name) was influenced by Lithuanian sutartinės, a polyphonic vocal form....

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of The Norwegian Bagpipe (?) Vol II

The Norwegian Bagpipe (?) Vol II

Tellef Kvifte

Taragot

Rating: ★★★★

Norwegian bagpipes? Trust me or, rather, trust Tellef Kvifte. He's one of Norwegian music's treasures: as professor of musicology researching...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Endeavour

Endeavour

Symbio

Symbio Music

Rating: ★★★

Here are two musicians who wear their hearts on their sleeves and have a charismatic stage presence. LarsEmil Öjeberget plays...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Collection of Traditional Musics 31: Peasant Brass Bands From Moldavia

Collection of Traditional Musics 31: Peasant Brass Bands From Moldavia

Şarambel Brass Band from Valea Mare, Vaslui

Ethnophonie

Rating: ★★★

This is the 31st disc in the remarkable collection of recordings of traditional Romanian music started by the late Speranța...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

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