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Review of Cordé Serré

Cordé Serré

Écorce

Écorce

Rating: ★★★

Celtic communities have helped to shape Québec's heritage and, whether of Breton, Cornish, Scottish, Welsh, Irish or Mannian origin, most...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Howay the Lasses

Howay the Lasses

Howay the Lasses

Howay the Lasses

Rating: ★★★★

This striking 11-track collection from Howay the Lasses – a quartet featuring Annie Ball (vocals, accordion, piano), Bronwen Davies-Jones (vocals),...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of The Hard Working Men

The Hard Working Men

Ispíní na hÉireann

Ispíní na hÉireann

Rating: ★★★

Irish trad duo Ispíní na hÉireann have always taken a unique tack when it comes to self-promotion. The Dublin-based pair,...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Tales From Across the Water

Tales From Across the Water

Griselda Sanderson | Griselda Sanderson & Ricardo de Noronha

Waulk Records

Rating: ★★★

Multi-instrumentalist Griselda Sanderson's third instrumental album, following 2008's Harpaphonics, and 2015's Radial, offers a musical hand of friendship and connection...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Firelight Trio

Firelight Trio

Firelight Trio

Firelight Trio

Rating: ★★★★

A new trio featuring accordionist Phil Alexander (Moishe's Bagel), renowned Scottish fiddle player Gavin Marwick and Ruth Morris on the...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of A Cimbalomprímás

A Cimbalomprímás

Tárkány Trió

Fonó

Rating: ★★★

The title of this album means ‘The Cimbalom Primás’ or bandleader and the player in question is Bálint Tárkány-Kovács, one...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Collection of Traditional Musics 32

Collection of Traditional Musics 32

The Band of Gică Diricel from Dobroteşti, Teleorman

Ethnophonie

Rating: ★★★

This band come from Teleorman County in the south of Romania, about 90km west of Clejani, home of Taraf de...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Like Nightingales in the Spring

Like Nightingales in the Spring

Orkestra Shkodra

Top of the World

ODA 3

Rating: ★★★★★

The north Albanian town of Shkodër, lying between lake and mountains, embraces multiple cultures and histories. While it was still...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Lady Sings the Balkan Blues

Lady Sings the Balkan Blues

Mostar Sevdah Reunion

Top of the World

Snail Records

Rating: ★★★★

Mostar Sevdah Reunion are a Bosnian institution. Emerging out of the ruins of war-torn Bosnia in 1998, tending the traditions...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Let Me Out

Let Me Out

Balaklava Blues

Unfit Records

Rating: ★★★

War is not always amenable to great art. Feelings of horror, loss and grief give rise to a sense that...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

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