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Review of Bamboo

Bamboo

Minoru Muraoka

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★

This is a welcome full reissue of the experimental album from 1970, which is highly prized by collectors. Shakuhachi (Japanese...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: July/2019

Review of Shuruaat

Shuruaat

Berklee Indian Ensemble

Berklee College of Music

Rating: ★★

This was always going to be slick, the Berklee Indian Ensemble is a collective of musicians with amazing technical skills....

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2022

Review of Free One

Free One

Kinnaris Quintet

Kinnaris

Rating: ★★★★

A highly respected duo in their own right, Jenn Butterworth (guitar) and Laura-Beth Salter (mandolin) are joined by three equally...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2018

Review of What the Folk?!

What the Folk?!

Kerekes Band

Hangveto

Rating: ★★

2008's Fela Kalappal took the Hungarian band's repertoire of music out of the Carpathians and pulled it into the shape...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2011

Review of The Unquiet

The Unquiet

Pauline Scanlon

Pauline Scanlon

Rating: ★★★★

This new solo album from vocalist Pauline Scanlon offers striking, singularly personal interpretations of ten traditional songs that range from...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2022

Review of Africa Rekk

Africa Rekk

Youssou N’Dour

Sony Music

Rating: ★★★

First, the good news. Youssou N’Dour is still in powerful, distinctive voice on his first studio album in over six...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: May/2017

Review of Hallival

Hallival

Iona Lane

Iona Lane

Rating: ★★★

Nominative determinism is at work here. Iona is a Hebridean island famed for its wild beauty, spirituality, and ancient stories....

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2022

Review of Six Days in Down

Six Days in Down

Bob Brozman, John McSherry & Dónal O'Connor

Riverboat Records/World Music Network

Rating: ★★★

Interviewing John McSherry earlier this year, the Belfast-born uilleann piper waxed both lyrically and enthusiastically about a recording session that...

Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of 365: Volume 2

365: Volume 2

Aidan O'Rourke

Reveal Records

Rating: ★★★★

Reveal Records issued Volume 1 in the spring of 2018, with Lau's fiddler joining forces with jazz pianist Kit Downes...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2019

Review of Farewell to the Homeland: Poyln

Farewell to the Homeland: Poyln

FleytMuzik

FleytMuzik

Rating: ★★★★

Behind this album is the story of the Frand family who travelled from Dubiecko, Poland to the US in the...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Jan/Feb/2017

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