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Review of Findings

Findings

Ange Hardy & Lukas Drinkwater

Story Records

Rating: ★★★

Ange Hardy and Lukas Drinkwater have been performing as a duo since December 2015 and this album encapsulates what they...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Review of Tricks of the Trade

Tricks of the Trade

Dipper Malkin

Dipper Malkin

Rating: ★★★★

There's a rich luxurious feel to the many beautiful instrumental tunes on this debut from John Dipper and Dave Malkin....

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Review of Seamount

Seamount

Birlinn Jiarg

Birlinn Jiarg

Rating: ★★★

Birlinn Jiarg are a band that was put together by whistle and Anglo concertina player Beccy Hurst to perform the...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Review of Tuulispää

Tuulispää

Karuna

KUU Records

Rating: ★★★★

Esko Järvela has an enviable musical pedigree. Growing up in Kaustinen, the home of Finnish folk music, he was immersed...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Review of Vieilles Caniques et Nouvelles Caniques

Vieilles Caniques et Nouvelles Caniques

Stanley Brinks & the Old-Time Kaniks

Fika Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Indie-folk is often terrible: a ham-fisted, middle-of-the-road mush of xylophones and ukuleles that is unashamedly twee and contrivedly cute. Thankfully,...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Review of Damar

Damar

Amira Medunjanin

Top of the World

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

The almost presidential aura exuded by the Bosnian and Herzegovinian singer and humanitarian in the monochrome photo that graces the...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Review of Momentum

Momentum

Trio Dhoore

Appel Rekords

Rating: ★★★

The third album from these three Flemish brothers finds them building impressively on the success of previous offerings Modus Operandi...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Review of The Spirit of the Mountains

The Spirit of the Mountains

Trebunie-Tutki & Quintet Urmuli

Unzipped Fly Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Trebunie-Tutki are Poland's best-known band playing traditional podhale (highland) music, but they are also famed for their reggae fusions...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Review of Alistair Anderson & Northlands

Alistair Anderson & Northlands

Alistair Anderson & Northlands

Alistair Anderson

Rating: ★★★

Alistair Anderson, venerable master of the concertina and Northumbrian smallpipes, has been playing the music of the north-east of England...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Review of Perfect Tango

Perfect Tango

Otros Aires

Galileo

Rating: ★★

The fourth album from the Argentinian-Spanish electro-tango outfit sees them ramping up their sound – the beats are faster, the...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

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