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Review of Dystopian Dream

Dystopian Dream

Nitin Sawhney

Positiv-ID

Rating: ★★★★

Like the musical equivalent of Stephen Fry, Nitin Sawhney seems to be everywhere. Producer, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, composer of film, TV...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2015

Review of About Time

About Time

Andy May Trio

Ashwood Records

Rating: ★★★

It is indeed about time Northumbrian Piper Andy May, guitarist Ian Stephenson and fiddler Sophy Ball did the decent thing...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2015

Review of From Bedlam to Lenane

From Bedlam to Lenane

Ilaria Graziano & Francesco Forni

Top of the World

Agualoca Records

Rating: ★★★★★

With that title beside those two names, I was expecting a couple of Italian crooners on an Irish road trip....

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2015

Review of Extra-Deluxe-Supreme

Extra-Deluxe-Supreme

Hazmat Modine

Jaro

Rating: ★★★★

The nine-piece New York-based ensemble Hazmat Modine may just be my favourite American roots band and their third studio album...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2015

Review of So Familiar

So Familiar

Steve Martin & Edie Brickell

Rounder

Rating: ★★★

So Familiar is the follow-up to Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's 2013 debut duo album, Love has Come for You....

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2015

Review of The Wild Atlantic Way: A Journey in Irish Music

The Wild Atlantic Way: A Journey in Irish Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Indi Entertainment

Rating: ★★★★★

Launched in 2014, and claiming to be the world's longest coastal touring route, the Wild Atlantic Way threads itself along...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: December/2015

Review of Woody Pines

Woody Pines

Woody Pines

Muddy Roots Music

Rating: ★★★

New Hampshire-born Woody Pines mines the American folk, ragtime, country blues, hillbilly and proto-rock’n’roll songbooks: the songs were spilling out...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2015

Review of Kerwanê

Kerwanê

Kardeş Türküler

Top of the World

Membran/Network

Rating: ★★★★

Kardeş Türküler celebrate their 21st anniversary with this ‘Best Of’ compilation. They have become such a feature of the musical...

Reviewed by Martin Stokes in issue: December/2015

Review of Under the Shade of Violets

Under the Shade of Violets

Orange Blossom

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★

The French electronica-meet-world-music outfit known as Orange Blossom had been off the radar for a whole ten years until they...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2015

Review of The Three Forges

The Three Forges

Cork Gamelan Ensemble

Diatribe Records

Rating: ★★★

The Three Forges is further evidence that gamelan is on its way to being a global music, a set of...

Reviewed by John Whitfield in issue: December/2015

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