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Review of If I Had the Strength

If I Had the Strength

Lemon Bucket Orkestra

Lemon Bucket Orkestra

Rating: ★

I'd never considered that Gogol Bordello might be popular in Canada, but Canadian band Lemon Bucket Orkestra prove that the...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Osty

Osty

Sutari

Unzipped Fly

Rating: ★★★★

The female trio Sutari have a unique sound world on the Polish music scene. The lyrics and music are largely...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Lysning

Lysning

Nils Økland Band

Hubro Music

Rating: ★★★★★

Nils Økland has a characteristic so often found in Norwegian music, a combination of humility and determination. He has had...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Songs My Ruiner Gave to Me: Concerning Love, Madness & Obsession

Songs My Ruiner Gave to Me: Concerning Love, Madness & Obsession

Naomi Bedford & Paul Simmonds

Dusty Willow

Rating: ★★★

Bedford's 2011 album, Tales from the Weeping Willow, focused on the former Orbital singer's penchant for folk and country, featuring...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Makhorka

Makhorka

Dobranotch

CPL-Music

Rating: ★★

Formed in 1998 in France by a trio of buskers from St Petersburg, Russia, Dobranotch originally played Irish music. Perhaps...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine

Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine

Declan O'Rourke

Warner Music

Rating: ★★★★

Fear and flight marked Ireland in the 1840s, when a series of famines laid low the island with devastating consequences....

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Beránci a Vlci

Beránci a Vlci

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Indies Scope

Rating: ★★★

This ambitious recording originates in a show put on at the Folk Holidays Festival in the Czech Republic. It brings...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Kroke 25: The Best Of

Kroke 25: The Best Of

Kroke

Universal Music Polska

Rating: ★★★★

The Polish trio Kroke celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2017. Kroke is the Yiddish name for Kraków, which was a...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Lunar

Lunar

Ross Daly & Kelly Thoma

Ross Daly

Rating: ★★★★

This double CD is a fascinating mix. The legendary lyra player Ross Daly and his student, the equally brilliant musician...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

Review of Live @ 25

Live @ 25

Peatbog Faeries

Peatbog Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Isle of Skye-based Peatbog Faeries have been a staple on the Scottish trad scene for 25 years now, and...

Reviewed in issue March/2018

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