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Review of Tules Maas Vedes Taivaal

Tules Maas Vedes Taivaal

Tuuletar

Top of the World

Bafe''s Factory

Rating: ★★★★

This is the debut recording of one of Finland's most dynamic new groups. The four young women who comprise Tuuletar...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Voices of Ashkenaz

Voices of Ashkenaz

Voices of Ashkenaz

CPL Music

Rating: ★★★

This is a fascinating recording that evolved out of the Yiddish Summer Weimar festival, which unites serious Jewish music research...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Afterlight

Afterlight

Ímar

Ímar

Rating: ★★★

Glasgow-based Ímar are named after a ninth-century king who ruled over Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man – which...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of The Moon We Watch is the Same

The Moon We Watch is the Same

Floating Sofa Quartet

GO’ Danish Folk Music

Rating: ★★★★

Not long after meeting as music students at 2013's Nordtrad conference, these four young folk musicians from Denmark, Finland and...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Varieties

Varieties

Alma

RootBeat Records

Rating: ★★★

Varieties opens with music that straddles British folk and baroque dance, before moving off in a very different direction: a...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Tördelős

Tördelős

Dresch Quartet

Fonő Records

Rating: ★★★

Sax and flute player Mihály Dresch is the leading figure in Magyar jazz and he formed his first quartet in...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Gatehouse

Gatehouse

Tús Nua

Gael Linn

Rating: ★★★

Meaning ‘New Beginnings’, Tús Nua are an aptly named quartet, as they step onto the traditional scene for the first...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Review of Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent

Aïta Productions

Rating: ★★★★

The musicians of Brittany and Ireland have long held each other in high musical esteem and nowhere is this admiration...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

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

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