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Review of Sense of the Place

Sense of the Place

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Stonehaven Folk Club

Rating: ★★★

Folk clubs and artists were hit hard by the pandemic, and Stonehaven, twice voted the BBC Alba Folk Club of...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of Knucklehead Circus

Knucklehead Circus

Old Blind Dogs

Old Blind Dogs

Rating: ★★★★

Marking their 14th record and in their 29th year, Old Blind Dogs kickstart their anniversary celebrations with a blisteringly seductive...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of Viimane Suusataja

Viimane Suusataja

Puuluup

Õunaviks Records

Rating: ★★★★

Estonian duo Puuluup were absolutely one of the highlights of the last Tallinn Music Week I attended in 2019. Ramo...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of Antipody

Antipody

Good Habits

Good Habits

Rating: ★★★

When is a duo not a duo? When it sounds like a chorus. Okay, as a joke it perhaps doesn’t...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of Make Your Mark

Make Your Mark

Seth Lakeman

Honour Oak Records

Rating: ★★★★

‘Did you hear the final warning?… Did you hear the people calling?’ The first lines of ‘Hollow’, the opening track...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of Songs of Love & Death

Songs of Love & Death

Reg Meuross and Harbottle & Jonas

Hatsongs Records

Rating: ★

This collaboration between English acoustic scene veteran Reg Meuross and the Devon folk duo David Harbottle and Freya Jonas sprung...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of Genius Loci 1: White Peak

Genius Loci 1: White Peak

The Ciderhouse Rebellion

TCR

Rating: ★★★

Instrumental duo fiddler Adam Summerhayes and accordionist Murray Grainger like to let things flow. At the heart of The Ciderhouse...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of Slåttepiano II

Slåttepiano II

Ingfrid Breie Nyhus

LabLabel

Rating: ★★★★

Ingfrid Breie Nyhus grew up in a family where Norwegian folk music was all around. It may be in her...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of Evergreen

Evergreen

Auka

Auka

Rating: ★★★★

Sheffield three-piece Auka make an agreeable debut on disc with Evergreen, a self-penned collection of Celtic folk-influenced pieces for flute...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

Review of Sleeping Spirals

Sleeping Spirals

Hannah James and Toby Kuhn

Top of the World

JigDoll Records

Rating: ★★★★

“I didn’t think I did need a cellist,” Hannah James says in a video describing the genesis of her new...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2022

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