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Review of Inclined to be Red

Inclined to be Red

Greg Russell

Fellside Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Greg Russell is an English folk singer on a mission. With the boundless energy of youth, he has been racing...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Review of Canzoni della Cupa

Canzoni della Cupa

Vinicio Capossela

Accords Croisés

Rating: ★★★

Vinicio Capossela's new double album contains songs that have emerged slowly over a decade. These 23 tracks are divided into...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Review of Painted

Painted

Joe Broughton's Conservatoire Folk Ensemble

Birmingham Conservatoire

Rating: ★★★

Painted is a kind of folk thesis: a powerful argument that all the world's musical styles comprise a patchwork we...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Review of We Happy Few

We Happy Few

The Drystones

Shedbuilt Records

Rating: ★★★★

Accomplished instrumentalists Ford Collier (guitars, whistles, percussion and vocals) and Alex Garden (fiddle, percussion and vocals) have been playing together...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Review of Mac Ìle: The Music of Fraser Shaw

Mac Ìle: The Music of Fraser Shaw

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Fraser Shaw Trust

Rating: ★★★★

In 2015 Fraser Shaw, multi-talented piper, whistle player and composer, sadly died at the young age of 34. Mac Ìle...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Review of Astro-Hungarian Jewish Music

Astro-Hungarian Jewish Music

Frank London Glass House Orchestra

Piranha Music

Rating: ★★★

The Glass House Orchestra takes its name from the Üvegház (Glass House), a building used by the Swiss diplomat Carl...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Review of Tatar Album

Tatar Album

Karolina Cicha & Bart Palyga

Wydzwiek

Rating: ★★★★

Karolina Cicha is one of Poland's most accomplished and interesting vocalists, not least for the choice of music she performs....

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Review of Talea

Talea

Paolo Angeli

ReR Megacorp

Rating: ★★★★

This enormous, virtuosic set is a collage from Paolo Angeli's solo dates – over 60 of them – performed across...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Review of All Soundings are True

All Soundings are True

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Garth Knox

Diatribe Records

Rating: ★★★

All Soundings are True picks up, in part, where Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh's sparse, raw-edged, minimalist 2014 solo offering Music for...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Review of Live in Mostar

Live in Mostar

Divanhana

ARC Music

Rating: ★★

Divanhana are a young Sarajevo-based band who have an old-fashioned work ethic: they get on the road and tour! This...

Reviewed in issue August/2017

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