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Review of twelvemonth and a day

twelvemonth and a day

Wolf & Clover

Wolf & Clover

Rating: ★★★

Based in Columbus, Georgia, this sextet boasts three professors, a music academy director, doctoral candidate and orchestra executive in its...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Festyval

Festyval

The Ukrainians

Zirka Records

Rating: ★★★

Hailing from Oldham, The Ukrainians were formed in 1990 by guitarist Peter Solowka (he being of Ukrainian and Yugoslav heritage)....

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Iníon

Iníon

Inni-K

Top of the World

Green Willow Records

Rating: ★★★★

This album of nine beautifully arranged sean nós songs from the Dublin-based singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Inni-K (Eithne Ní Chatháin)...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of VLADIMIR

VLADIMIR

VLADIMIR

Gramofon

Rating: ★★★

When thinking about the Balkans, the Jewish are rarely the first of its peoples to come to mind. Indeed, they...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Glendrian

Glendrian

Kenneth I MacKenzie

Caberfeidh Music

Rating: ★★

Composer and multi-instrumentalist MacKenzie’s new release, Glendrian, is a fetching tribute to an area of north-west Scotland which has strong...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Read the Sky

Read the Sky

Oysterband

Running Man Records

Rating: ★★★★

Oysterband have had an impressive history, and they are certainly not finished yet. This is the 12th studio album, the...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Over Fields and Mountains

Over Fields and Mountains

Branko Mataja

Numero Group

Rating: ★★★★★

Over Fields and Mountains is one of those ‘lost’ or ‘outsider’ records that contains the sound of surprise. The late...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Suspiro

Suspiro

Suonno d’Ajere

Italian World Beat

Rating: ★★★★

Canzone napoletana, the world’s best-known Italian popular music, has enthralled Suonno d’Ajere (Yesterday’s Dream) – a young Neapolitan trio employing...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Unknown Waters

Unknown Waters

Megson

EDJ Records

Rating: ★★★

Though they may have ventured into the southern flatlands of England, the folk duo Megson has always remained close to...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

Review of Raajroe: The Reindeer Caravan

Raajroe: The Reindeer Caravan

Marja Mortensson & Daniel Herskedal

Veadta

Rating: ★★★★

With the cinematic sweep of an epic, and with the steady, enduring relentlessness of the rhythms of the natural world,...

Reviewed in issue May/2022

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