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Review of Sorrows Away

Sorrows Away

The Unthanks

Rabble Rouser Music

Rating: ★★★★

The Unthanks have been closing their concerts with the title-track of their new album and finding that audiences are singing...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2022

Review of Netsa

Netsa

Minyeshu

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

Those who read the interview with her in these pages four years ago (December 2018, #143) will know that Minyeshu...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2022

Review of Gracious Wings

Gracious Wings

Jackie Oates

Top of the World

Needle Pin Records

Rating: ★★★★

Since her eponymous debut, released in 2006, through the stellar likes of Hyperboreans, Saturnine and Lullabies, Jackie Oates has proved...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2022

Review of Roya

Roya

Liraz

Top of the World

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Persian/Israeli singer Liraz was a Songlines cover star in 2020 courtesy of her sophomore album Zan, a border-busting work in...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2022

Review of Afar Ways

Afar Ways

Yanna Momina

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★

The 74-year-old Momina is a member of the nomadic Afar people, a Muslim ethnic group who inhabit the desert regions...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2022

Review of The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of the Black British Experience

The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of the Black British Experience

Angeline Morrison

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

The title tells us of this album’s focus, but nothing quite prepares us for the introduction: spoken word written by...

Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: November/2022

Review of High Doh

High Doh

Damian McKee, Gudrun Walther & Aaron Jones

Artes/Galileo

Rating: ★★★

Over the last 15 years, Damian McKee (button box) of Beoga, Gudrun Walther (fiddle, vocals) from CARA and Aaron Jones...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2022

Review of Bloom

Bloom

Siobhan Miller

Songprint Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Comprising ten classic Scots folk songs Siobhan Miller’s new album is a celebration of Scots song. But this is no...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2022

Review of Reflexión

Reflexión

Eljuri

Manovill Records

Rating: ★★★

Following her collection of reggae sounds in 2019, the Latina powerhouse has gone for a more catholic approach with her...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2022

Review of Bach to Folk

Bach to Folk

Lodestar Trio

Naxos World

Rating: ★★★★

Max Baillie is a British-German classical violin virtuoso who has worked with Björk; Erik Rydvall, a Swede who plays the...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2022

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