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Review of Heal & Harrow

Heal & Harrow

Heal & Harrow

Shadowside Records

Rating: ★★★★

At a time when there is a movement afoot to pardon the 4,000 or so women who found themselves at...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Zavrzlama

Zavrzlama

Divanhana

Top of the World

CPL Music

Rating: ★★★★

Divanhana are a fine Bosnian sevdah band that have been in existence for more than a decade. Well-known at home...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Pilgrim Souls

Pilgrim Souls

Megan Henderson

Megan Henderson

Rating: ★★★

The fiddler, singer and step-dancer with popular Scottish band Breabach, and a member of a prominent traditional music family from...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Livre

Livre

Mário Pacheco

Sony Portugal

Rating: ★★★

A seminal figure in Portuguese music, the guitarist Mário Pacheco for many years ran the Clube de Fado in Lisbon...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Great Tunes from the World Music Charts Europe

Great Tunes from the World Music Charts Europe

VARIOUS ARTISTS

CPT

Rating: ★★★

The World Music Charts Europe was founded 30 years ago by the European Broadcasting Union and has been compiled every...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Amplexo

Amplexo

Inês de Vasconcellos

Museu do Fado

Rating: ★★★

What does it currently take to stand out from the massive crowd of new fadistas that keeps growing by the...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of A Drop for Neptune

A Drop for Neptune

TRIP

TRIP Music

Rating: ★★★

A Drop for Neptune marks the debut album for Glasgow based six-piece TRIP, and it’s an album steeped in the...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Zay Freylekh!

Zay Freylekh!

Dobranotch

CPL Music

Rating: ★★★★

The Russian klezmer band Dobranotch (Goodnight) are like a retro homage to the larger bands of the American klezmer revival...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Ingen Mere Gråter

Ingen Mere Gråter

Ævestaden

Ævestaden

Rating: ★★★★

There’s a subgenre called ‘dream pop’ that covers bands from Cocteau Twins to Beach House. Ævestaden’s music could be described as...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of After the City

After the City

Bird in the Belly

GFM Records

Rating: ★★★

The Brighton band’s third album is a smokily atmospheric folk noir not a million miles from the fearsome futurology of...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

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