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Review of Nick Harts Sings Ten English Folk Songs

Nick Harts Sings Ten English Folk Songs

Nick Hart

Roebuck Records

Rating: ★★★★

The third studio album from folk singer Nick Hart will ring a bell. With dry humour, he is totting up...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2022

Review of Yeshi Dolma

Yeshi Dolma

Tenzin Choegyal, Katherine Philp & Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra

Top of the World

Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra

Rating: ★★★★

Yeshi Dolma is the culmination of ten years of collaboration between Tenzin Choegyal from Tibet and Australian Katherine Philp. They...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: June/2022

Review of Nine Waves

Nine Waves

Ye Vagabonds

River Lea Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

For their second album on the excellent River Lea label, Diarmuid and Brían Mac Gloinn, aka Ye Vagabonds, are joined...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2022

Review of Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds

Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Curlew Sounds/RSPB

Rating: ★★★★★

Orkney-born musician Merlyn Driver grew up listening to the calls of the curlew. It was a sound that made such...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: June/2022

Review of Canzuni

Canzuni

Massimo Ferrante

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

Canzuni is a fine assortment of southern Italian folk songs. Calabria-born but a long-time resident of Naples, Ferrante is a...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: June/2022

Review of O’Roma

O’Roma

Marcela

Jamalafak/Music Box Publishing/Socadisc

Rating: ★★★★

I’ve gone years without hearing Slovak Roma music then receive two new albums in the same month – Júlia Kozáková’s...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: June/2022

Review of Homage to Nazım Hikmet

Homage to Nazım Hikmet

Tülay German & François Rabbath

Zehra

Rating: ★★★★

Poet, playwright and novelist Nazım Hikmet has cast a huge shadow over Turkish culture for a century. A pioneer of...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2022

Review of Roraima

Roraima

Sigurd Hole

Elvesang

Rating: ★★★

Sigurd Hole’s previous album was a solo double bass exploration into the environment and atmospheres of his native Norway. Now...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2022

Review of The Sargasso Season

The Sargasso Season

Erica Dee Mah

Erica Dee Mah

Rating: ★★★

From the first few bars of the opening title-track, The Sargasso Season resounds with mellifluous beauty stemming from the pairing...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2022

Review of ECHO

ECHO

Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita

Top of the World

bendigedig

Rating: ★★★★★

It’s been ten years now since Catrin Finch, the classically-trained Welsh harpist, first began working with Seckou Keita, the British-based...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022

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