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Review of Cold Sea

Cold Sea

Oisin Leech

Outside Music

Rating: ★★★

Cold Sea is the first solo release from Oisin Leech, who may be more familiar as one half of Irish...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2024

Review of Skin

Skin

Maddie Morris

No Masters

Rating: ★★★★

Engaging folk with contemporary issues Maddie Morris’ debut full-length album, Skin, is an insightful listen. A deeply socially conscious songwriter,...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2024

Review of Jolifanto

Jolifanto

ZA! + Perrate

Top of the World

Lovemonk

Rating: ★★★★

For all its depth of tradition, flamenco has always been moved by innovation. In 1979 Camarón de le Isla’s La...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2024

Review of Ginga

Ginga

Flavia Coelho

[PIAS]

Rating: ★★★★

The fifth album by Brazilian singer-songwriter Flavia Coelho is brimming with uplifting, catchy melodies, which have become her signature appeal....

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: July/2024

Review of Pine Tree Flyers

Pine Tree Flyers

Pine Tree Flyers

Pine Tree Flyers

Rating: ★★★

The Pine Tree Flyers’ full-length debut album proudly waves the banner of New England (US) roots music. Fundamentally, this fiddle-based...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2024

Review of Pulled by the Stars

Pulled by the Stars

Clash Vooar

Clash Vooar

Rating: ★★★

‘Clash Vooar’ is Manx for Big Groove, and the band’s second album includes a batch of sturdy grooves, along with...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2024

Review of Out in La La Land

Out in La La Land

Martha Spencer

Music Maker

Rating: ★★★★★

Martha Spencer is from deep in the Appalachian folk tradition. So deep that she lives on top of a lonely...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: August/2024

Review of 7

7

BGKO

Satélite K

Rating: ★★★

The Barcelona Gipsy BalKan Orchestra, formerly the Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra, present their seventh album – hence the title. A...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/2024

Review of Bird Tunes

Bird Tunes

Miranda Rutter

RobRec

Rating: ★★★★

This newly composed instrumental suite from fiddle player and composer Rutter is a work of melodic charm, entirely inspired by...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2024

Review of Keyeyî

Keyeyî

Ali Doğan Gönültaş

Top of the World

Mapamundi Música

Rating: ★★★★

Ali Doğan Gönültaş is the rising star of Kurdish music in Turkey. This album is just him solo, his emotional...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: August/2024

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