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Review of 30: Happy Returns

30: Happy Returns

Kate Rusby

Pure Records

Rating: ★★★★

To celebrate 30 years as a performing musician Kate Rusby has selected songs from her 18 previous albums and recorded...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2022

Review of Roots to Rise (Live)

Roots to Rise (Live)

We Banjo 3

We Banjo 3

Rating: ★★★★

Caught live in the hallowed acoustics of Michigan's fabled The Ark in Ann Arbor, this album by Celtgrass pioneers We...

Reviewed by Michrel Quinn in issue: December/2019

Review of The Four Pillars

The Four Pillars

Mike Vass

Unroofed

Rating: ★★★

This multimedia project first began to take shape when musician, composer, producer and arranger Mike Vass, formerly with Malinky and...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2019

Review of Celenka

Celenka

Celenka

KUU Records

Rating: ★★★

Vocals, kantele (zither), trumpet, harmonica and harmonium are an unusual combination of instruments but Finnish trio Celenka clearly enjoy a...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2015

Review of Back to Peru Vol II

Back to Peru Vol II

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Vampisoul VAMPI CD117

Rating: ★★★

Any illusion that it was only the US, UK and parts of Europe that properly embraced rock in the 1960s...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Apr/May/2010

Review of Retratos Cinéticos

Retratos Cinéticos

OrBlua

Ocarina Music

Rating: ★★★

The appeal of the OrBlua trio rests mainly in their rawness. Retratos Cinéticos sounds like its recordings were merely an...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2015

Review of Geminus

Geminus

Kane Mathis

Kane Mathis

Rating: ★★★

In a way you could say Mathis spent more than 20 years making this album – even though he eventually...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2021

Review of Parasol Peak

Parasol Peak

Manu Delago

Top of the World

One Little Indian

Rating: ★★★★

Since popularising the hang drum – a melodic percussion instrument, and cousin to the steel pan – at the turn...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: December/2018

Review of The Tiree Songbook

The Tiree Songbook

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Tiree Association

Rating: ★★★★

Inspired by the Na Bàird Thirisdeach, an early 20th-century collection of songs and poems from the island of Tiree, this...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2018

Review of The Tin Fiddle

The Tin Fiddle

Damien McGeehan

Damien McGeehan

Rating: ★★★

Your ears could be forgiven for presuming there was at least one percussionist, guitarist or mandolin player on this album....

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: August/2017

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