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Review of Live: The Farewell Tour

Live: The Farewell Tour

Bellowhead

Top of the World

Navigator Records (2 CDs, DVD 125 mins)

Rating: ★★★★★

Bellowhead made some great studio albums but their concerts are extraordinary. There was the horn section, kicking like a chorus...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Review of Vårdroppar

Vårdroppar

Rydvall & Mjelva

heilo

Rating: ★★★★

It's enough of a selling point to say that the liner notes for this album were written by the great...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Review of Algarabya

Algarabya

La Banda Morisca

Fol Música

Rating: ★★★

The obvious point of reference for La Banda Morisca (The Moorish Band) is the now-defunct Radio Tarifa, with whom they...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Review of Between River and Railway

Between River and Railway

Claire Hastings

Luckenbooth Records

Rating: ★★★★

Dumfries and Galloway have always been a fertile ground for powerful Scottish singers and songwriters and it is clear this...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

Review of Red Diesel

Red Diesel

Pilgrims’ Way

Fellside Recordings

Rating: ★★★

It's been a long five years since the trio of singer Lucy Wright, fiddler Tom Kitching and one-man-band Edwin Beasant...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

Review of Dvojka

Dvojka

Damir Imamović's Sevdah Takht

Glitterbeat

Rating: ★★★★

Born in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, Damir Imamović is one of the leading names in the country's dynamic new sevdah...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

Review of Hungarian Noir: A Tribute to the Gloomy Sunday

Hungarian Noir: A Tribute to the Gloomy Sunday

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Piranha Records

Rating: ★★★

Thankfully the song ‘Gloomy Sunday’ does not directly cause people to commit suicide. Otherwise I would be 12 times deceased...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

Review of Reverie

Reverie

RANT

Make Believe Records

Rating: ★★★★

RANT's line-up unites the mainland of Scotland with its islands: sisters Bethany and Jenna Reid are well-known Shetland fiddlers; Sarah-Jane...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

Review of Voice of the People: “It Was Mighty!” – The Early Days of Irish Music in London

Voice of the People: “It Was Mighty!” – The Early Days of Irish Music in London

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Topic Records 3 CDs

Rating: ★★★★

These two sets of field recordings – from the pubs, clubs, ballrooms, bars, private rooms, Irish centres and occasional radio...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

Review of Pa’ki Pa’ka

Pa’ki Pa’ka

Robert ‘Robi’ Svärd

Top of the World

Asphalt Tango

Rating: ★★★★

Raised in Sweden and Australia and trained as a classical guitarist, Robert Svärd fell into flamenco from a distance, but...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

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