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Review of Apikorsim/Heretics

Apikorsim/Heretics

The Klezmatics

World Village

Rating: ★★★

From New York, The Klezmatics have been shaking up the klezmer and Yiddish music scene for 30 years now. So...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Review of Wolves a’ Howlin’

Wolves a’ Howlin’

Kieran Towers & Charlotte Carrivick

Towers & Carrivick

Rating: ★★★

This pair of talented instrumentalists don’t look old enough to be playing music this long in the tooth. Fiddler Kieran...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Review of Wild Blue Yonder

Wild Blue Yonder

The Western Flyers

Versa-Tone Records

Rating: ★★★★

The knowingly kitsch cover says it all really: a trio of country musicians aboard a covered wagon, flying like Santa's...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Review of Ramblin Feels Good

Ramblin Feels Good

Jeff Scroggins & Colorado

Jeff Scroggins

Rating: ★★★

This is a fine showcase for the hard-driving mainstream bluegrass fare upon which Scroggins and Colorado have established a solid...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Review of Nine Pin

Nine Pin

Kaia Kater

Top of the World

Mavens Music

Rating: ★★★★

Born to Afro-Caribbean parents in Québec and having lived and studied banjo in West Virginia's Appalachian mountains marks Kaia Kater...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Review of ABUC

ABUC

Roberto Fonseca

Top of the World

Impulse!

Rating: ★★★★★

It's not hard to spot that ABUC is Cuba spelt backwards, and on this album, pianist Roberto Fonseca takes the...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Review of Chaim Tannenbaum

Chaim Tannenbaum

Chaim Tannenbaum

StorySound Records

Rating: ★★★★

Anyone who knows Loudon Wainwright III or Kate and Anna McGarrigle's music will be familiar with the work of Chaim...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Review of Hunter & the Hunted

Hunter & the Hunted

Fellow Pynins

Fellow Pynins

Rating: ★★★

Fans of the softer, gentler side of the neo-folk Americana spectrum will be enthralled by Hunter & the Hunted, the...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Review of Inglorious Technicolor

Inglorious Technicolor

Voodoo Love Orchestra

Movimientos

Rating: ★★

This Brighton crew perform daubed in pallid Day of the Dead skull-masks. Their music is quite a concoction, with swirling...

Reviewed in issue December/2016

Review of Camaleão Borboleta

Camaleão Borboleta

Graveola

Mais Um Discos

Rating: ★★★

With 12 years behind them and half a dozen albums and EPs to their name, Graveola are one of the...

Reviewed in issue November/2016

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