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Review of The Rough Guide to Celtic Music

The Rough Guide to Celtic Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★

On the plus side, this is a substantially more satisfying compilation than the now-deleted 2005 collection of the same name....

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Review of Largo da Memória

Largo da Memória

Ricardo Ribeiro

Parlophone Music

Rating: ★★★★

With Largo da Memória (Coast of Memory), Ribeiro confirms himself as one of the most distinctive artists in the new...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Review of Amber Sands

Amber Sands

Claudia Schwab

Claudia Schwab

Rating: ★★★

An Ireland-based, Austrian-born fiddle player and composer, Schwab's solo debut comes after globe-hopping collaborations with the likes of Austrian string...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Review of Old Tunes, Dusted Down

Old Tunes, Dusted Down

MANdolinMAN

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

It wouldn’t be everyone's idea of a fantastic surprise birthday present. But the Belgian mandolin player Andries Boone is a...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Review of Wandering Stars: Songs from Gimpel's Lemberg Yiddish Theatre 1906-1910

Wandering Stars: Songs from Gimpel's Lemberg Yiddish Theatre 1906-1910

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Renair Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This extraordinary collection of Yiddish theatre songs, produced by Julian Futter and Mike Aylward, is the outcome of a ten-year...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Review of Gather the Good

Gather the Good

We Banjo 3

We Banjo 3

Rating: ★★★★

Potently blending Irish traditional music, bluegrass and old-time Americana, We Banjo 3's 2012 debut Roots of the Banjo Tree saw...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Review of Castellum Honesti

Castellum Honesti

Milladoiro

Discmedi

Rating: ★★★★

Castellum Honesti was originally recorded in Dublin and released in 1989. The fact that a band from Galicia should end...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Review of Acoustic Classics

Acoustic Classics

Richard Thompson

Beeswing Records

Rating: ★★★

This may sport one of the least inspiring pieces of cover art you’re ever likely to have seen, but the...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Review of Changeling

Changeling

Rachel Newton

Top of the World

Shadow Records

Rating: ★★★★

Rachel Newton is nothing if not busy – a member of The Shee, the Emily Portman Trio, the Furrow Collective...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Review of Cold Old Fire

Cold Old Fire

Lynched

Charcoal Records

Rating: ★★★★

Much has been happening on Ireland's live circuit in recent years, with the emergence of new names trying new ways...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

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