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Review of Bellanöva

Bellanöva

Bellanöva

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

The Four Provinces is an area pertaining to four distinct administrative subdivisions located in four different Italian regions (Lombardy, Piedmont,...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of In Which

In Which

The Teacups

Haystack Records

Rating: ★★★

Alex Cumming, Kate Locksley, Rosie Calvert and Will Finn met in 2010 on the Folk and Traditional Music degree course...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of When the Sun Goes In

When the Sun Goes In

Simon Robinson

Simon Robinson

Rating: ★★★

After touring extensively for 12 years with the band Maia, Robinson has recently preferred to explore the more traditional roots...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of Klezmer from the New World

Klezmer from the New World

Susi Evans & Szilvia Csaranko

Susi Evans & Szilvia Csaranko

Rating: ★★★★

This is a clarinet and accordion duo, Susi Evans being one of the best klezmer clarinettists of our day, playing...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of Still Time

Still Time

Karen Matheson

Vertical Records

Rating: ★★★★

Karen Matheson returns after five years to prove she still deserves her place among Scottish Folk Royalty – along, of...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of Trovaores

Trovaores

Antonio Placer Sextet & Antonio Campos

Alma Musiques

Rating: ★★

Antonio Placer is a Galician singer, poet and songwriter who describes himself as ‘exiled’ in France. Trovaores, his latest release...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of Skiver

Skiver

Folkatron Sessions

Upcycled Sound Records

Rating: ★★★

These sessions – ‘eight musicians, seven days, one experimental folk album from scratch’ – feature a welcomely eclectic mix of...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of Cretan Smash

Cretan Smash

Balothizer

Louvana Records

Rating: ★★

Greek folk tales set to thrash metal ‘music from hell’ (that’s how their fans, not their critics, describe them) may...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of Urranta

Urranta

Deirdre Graham

Ashaig Music

Rating: ★★★

Deirdre Graham comes from a musical family on the Isle of Skye. After studying Gaelic song and clarsach at the...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of Puput

Puput

Cocanha

Top of the World

Pagans/Dardalh

Rating: ★★★★

By singing in the ancient French regional Occitan language accompanied mainly by bodily percussion, this all-female vocal group will inevitably...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

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