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Review of The Tinker's Dream

The Tinker's Dream

Chris Murphy

Teahouse Records

Rating: ★★

Although The Tinker's Dream is ostensibly a solo album, it sounds very much the product of a group. Chris Murphy,...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of The Voice of Suka

The Voice of Suka

Maria Pomianowska

Top of the World

For Tune

Rating: ★★★★★

This is a remarkable album. Maria Pomianowska is a Polish fiddle player who collaborates with musicians all over the world;...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Galanìas

Galanìas

Actores Alidos

Finisterre

Rating: ★★★

Twelve years since Canti Delle Donne Sarde, the stunning debut from the female quintet who briskly defied the island's traditionally...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Svod: Traditional Songs from Serbia and the Balkans

Svod: Traditional Songs from Serbia and the Balkans

Bilja Krstic & Bistrik Orchestra

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

ARC Music is developing into one of the foremost record labels releasing new Balkan recordings – having issued excellent efforts...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Forge

Forge

Inlay

Inlay

Rating: ★★★★

This young four-piece came together on the music course at the University of East Anglia and the expansiveness of the...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of All Covered with Moss

All Covered with Moss

Alison Perkins & Nicolas Brown

Alison Perkins & Nicola Brown

Rating: ★★★★

All Covered with Moss, the debut offering from Detroit, Michigan-based duo Alison Perkins and Nicolas Brown, arrives as the pair...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Simultaneous Flight Movement

Simultaneous Flight Movement

Laura Cannell

Brawl Records

Rating: ★★★★

One musician, a violin, a recorder and a lighthouse are hardly the typical ingredients of an album. Laura Cannell's Simultaneous...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Night Hours

Night Hours

Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith

Fellside Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

This is the second studio album from the young Bristol folk duo. It is a well-judged collection that feels very...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Review of Amplitude

Amplitude

Danças Ocultas & Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras

Galileo

Rating: ★★★★

The concertina is as versatile as it is portable – hence its pivotal role in American, Argentinian and South African...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Review of Big Machine

Big Machine

Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band

Top of the World

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

Bold, brassy and bendy, Eliza Carthy's Big Machine is a monster of an album, and she has a monster of...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

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