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Review of The Voice of the People: The Barley Mow

The Voice of the People: The Barley Mow

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Topic Records released the Voice of the People series – 20 CDs and about 500 recordings of traditional songs and...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Całe Szczęście

Całe Szczęście

Mosaik

Verge Sound

Rating: ★★★

Mosaik are a very accomplished Polish folk band who combine Polish traditions with world sounds. On this album we hear...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Review of The Bridge that Links Time

The Bridge that Links Time

Ensemble Tirana

Fréa Records

Rating: ★★★

Since their previous record, Chants Polyphoniques d’Albanie, an efficient survey of the remarkably varied unaccompanied songs of the Albanian south,...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Fair Warning

Fair Warning

The Rails

Island Records

Rating: ★★★★

Kami Thompson and James Walbourne's first release on Island's Pink Label imprint, once home to the likes of Fairport Convention,...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Centenary: Words & Music of the Great War

Centenary: Words & Music of the Great War

Show of Hands with Jim Carter & Imelda Staunton

Mighty Village Records

Rating: ★★★★★

There will be few finer artistic tributes to the cataclysmic experience of World War I in this centenary year than...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Talk about the Weather

Talk about the Weather

Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra

Tea Pad Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Here is yet another product of the music factory that is the Folk and Traditional Music degree course at Newcastle...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Revival

Revival

Bellowhead

Island Records

Rating: ★★★

Bellowhead's Revival begins, typically, with a couple of sea shanties, ‘Let Her Run’ and ‘Roll Alabama’. The calls and responses...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Review of Metta

Metta

Damian Helliwell's Metta

Eigg Records

Rating: ★★★

Damian Helliwell, better known as a member of Gaelic Dàimh, has launched his new project, Metta, in collaboration with a...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Review of A Thousand Hearts

A Thousand Hearts

Cara Dillon

Charcoal Records

Rating: ★★★★

Five year's after Cara Dillon's last studio album, 2009's Hill of Thieves, comes A Thousand Hearts, a brittle and beautiful...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

Review of This Willowed Light

This Willowed Light

Maz O’Connor

Wild Sound Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

This is a great return from the young British folk singer Maz O’Connor. Much of the credit for the rich...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014

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