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Review of Mare

Mare

Quadro Nuevo

GLM Music

Rating: ★★★

Why do Germans go to the Mediterranean for their holidays? I know, a controversial question, and liable to prompt talk...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of Østerlide

Østerlide

Østerlide

Tare Records

Rating: ★★★

Norwegian trio 0sterlide cannot be accused of overstatement. This album of folk vignettes is so subtle as to at times...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of Live at St George’s

Live at St George’s

O’Hooley & Tidow

No Masters

Rating: ★★★

One of British folk’s best-loved dynamic duos (and now with a baby son attached), O’Hooley and Tidow marked ten years...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of In Trad We Trust

In Trad We Trust

Sväng

Top of the World

Galileo

Rating: ★★★★

This irrepressible Finnish harmonica quartet have delighted and astonished us for 17 years, producing eight albums ranging music from Sibelius...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of Mariza Canta Amalia

Mariza Canta Amalia

Mariza

Top of the World

Warner Portugal

Rating: ★★★★★

In her salad days as the young pretender, Mariza was as embarrassed as she was flattered by the comparison with...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of Words of a Fiddler’s Daughter: Rúnian

Words of a Fiddler’s Daughter: Rúnian

The Ciderhouse Rebellion with Jessie Summerhayes

The Ciderhouse Rebellion

Rating: ★★★★

Anyone who has spent time on Lindisfarne Island off Britain’s Northumbrian coast in the wintertime knows just how exposed it...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of Spectres

Spectres

Tom Moore & Archie Moss

Slow Worm Records

Rating: ★★★

This instrumental folk duo are young musicians with a long pedigree. Immersed in the English folk scenesince birth, they are...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of Home Recordings

Home Recordings

Martin Simpson

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

Simpson was scheduled to deliver a live album this year. Instead, he went home, found a room, pressed record, and...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of Where the World is Thin

Where the World is Thin

Kris Drever

Reveal Records

Rating: ★★★

Kris Drever’s solo albums don’t come that often – 2010’s Mark the Hard Earth was followed six years later by...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

Review of Barely Ann-Mari

Barely Ann-Mari

Irina Björklund & Pauanne

Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★

Peacemaker is a successful Finnish TV series starring Finnish singer and actress Irina Björklund in the leading role of Ann-Mari...

Reviewed in issue January/2021

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