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Review of Ladaniva

Ladaniva

Ladaniva

[PIAS]

Rating: ★★★

Ladaniva is the creation of Belarusso-Armenian singer Jaklin Baghdasaryan and French multi-instrumentalist, Louis Thomas, whose featured trumpet playing often recalls...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of Tudat Alatt

Tudat Alatt

Soma Salamon

Fonó

Rating: ★★★

Soma Salamon is a folk music researcher and performer specialising in traditional flutes. He’s played with a number of bands...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of A Curious Compendium of Crooked Irish Tunes Vol 1

A Curious Compendium of Crooked Irish Tunes Vol 1

Dave Flynn

Frisbee Records

Rating: ★★★

It’s safe to say that Dr Dave Flynn is something of an iconoclast. The composer and guitarist behind the Irish...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of Wild Wet World

Wild Wet World

Cosmo Sheldrake

Tardigrade

Rating: ★★★

Sheldrake’s previous album was the excellent Wake Up Calls, featuring music and sound set to birdsong, in order to ‘help...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of Irish Rock’n’Roll

Irish Rock’n’Roll

The Mary Wallopers

BC Records

Rating: ★★★★★

‘Well here I am from Paddy’s Land,’ sings Charles Hendy in the opening line of ‘The Bauld O’Donoghue’, the first...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of Sur Mon Dos

Sur Mon Dos

Matjé

Label d’À Côté

Rating: ★★★

Like Manu Chao, Matjé is a musical voyager, who took his artist’s name from the Creole word ‘to write’. The...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of Unheard Landscapes

Unheard Landscapes

Mikko H Haapoja

Unheard Landscapes

Rating: ★★

Haapoja is a Helsinki-based producer and includes one of Finland’s current favourite bands, Okra Playground, among his credits. On Unheard...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of Hämärä

Hämärä

Sähköpaimen

Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★★

If you see the name Eero Grundström (Sväng, Suistamon Sähkö) on any release, go for it. It’ll be a bit...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of Avant Folk Triptyk

Avant Folk Triptyk

Frode Haltli

Jazzland

Rating: ★★★

Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli’s third Avant Folk outing has a change of record label, from Hubro to Jazzland, retaining a...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of Pod Obločkom

Pod Obločkom

Ondro a Kamaráti

Môlča Records

Rating: ★★

Ondrej Druga is a Slovakian accordionist and he and his ‘friends’ are devotees of the richest area of folk music...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

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