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Review of Decade: The Best of Lau 2007-2017

Decade: The Best of Lau 2007-2017

Lau

Top of the World

Lau Scotland

Rating: ★★★★★

How can one possibly put together a compilation of the most exciting, musically adventurous trio in British folk without leaving...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2017

Review of Balbalou

Balbalou

Cheikh Lô

Top of the World

Chapter Two Records

Rating: ★★★★★

It's five years since Cheikh Lô's fourth and final album for the World Circuit label but thankfully little has changed...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2015

Review of Nomade Orquestra

Nomade Orquestra

Nomade Orquestra

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★★

While it's surely purely coincidental that São Paulo's Nomade Orquestra formed in 2012, the same year Azymuth's José Roberto Bertrami...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2016

Review of Hollie Cook

Hollie Cook

Hollie Cook

Mr Bongo Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Music is in Hollie Cook's blood. Her father is Sex Pistols’ drummer Paul Cook. Having grown up in West London,...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: October/2011

Review of Eplemøya Songlag

Eplemøya Songlag

Eplemøya Songlag

NORCD

Rating: ★★★★

My first experience of Eplemøya Songlag was in an old fashioned wooden room in the old Bank building in the...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2011

Review of Na Vschod

Na Vschod

R.U.T.A.

Karrot Kommando

Rating: ★★★★★

R.U.T.A. is a jokey Polish acronym for the Movement of Utopia, Transcendence and Anarchy. Bringing together raw, rustic folk instruments,...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Summertime: Best of Black Umfolosi

Summertime: Best of Black Umfolosi

Black Umfolosi

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

Asked to name two southern African a capella choirs, many will struggle after nominating Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Songlines readers might...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2012

Review of Tzenni

Tzenni

Noura Mint Seymali

Top of the World

Glitterbeat

Rating: ★★★★★

The latest ascending Saharan star comes not from Mali, as you might expect, but from Mauritania. Singer and griot Noura...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Aug/Sep/2014

Review of A Treasury of Shanties and Songs of the Sea

A Treasury of Shanties and Songs of the Sea

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Proper Records

Rating: ★★★

A Treasury is just that, a hoard of the best shanties. Furthermore, it’s sung by four of the finest outfits...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2012

Review of Sleep Sound

Sleep Sound

Fiona Rutherford

Sleep Records

Rating: ★★★★

Originally commissioned as part of Celtic Connections New Voices in 2012, Sleep Sound marks the Edinburgh-based harpist Rutherford's solo debut...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: July/2014

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