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Review of One Day

One Day

Jenna Reid & Harris Playfair

Lofoten Records

Rating: ★★★★

It's titled One Day because it took just that for the remarkable fiddle player Jenna Reid to record this exquisite...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Carry Them With Us

Carry Them With Us

Brìghde Chaimbeul

tak:til / Giltterbeat

Rating: ★★★★

Chaimbeul's richly experimental new album sits perfectly in Glitterbeat's almost always excellent catalogue of outlier artists from world music traditions;...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Peggy's Dream

Peggy's Dream

Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble

Top of the World

Faction Records / 251

Rating: ★★★★★

Lovers of The Gloaming will be expecting the best from Clare fiddler extraordinaire Martin Hayes and the Common Ground Ensemble,...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Wicked Light

Wicked Light

Legiana Collective

Legiana

Rating: ★★★★

Members of this young folk ensemble began their various musical careers playing spontaneously on the streets of France, Switzerland and...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Nowhere and Everywhere

Nowhere and Everywhere

Unthank : Smith

Billingham Records

Rating: ★★★★

Paul Smith, of Maxïmo Park, met Rachel Unthank, of The Unthanks, when both played an Africa Express concert. Collaboration between...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Dusk Moon

Dusk Moon

RURA

RURA

Rating: ★★★★

One of the finest bands on the Scottish folk scene returns with their fourth studio album, the atmospheric and thoroughly...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Amicum

Amicum

Timo Alakolita & Johanna Juhola Duo

Åkerö Records

Rating: ★★★★

It's sixteen years since this duo's last album. At that point Alakotila was one of the key figures on the...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Veseli Romi

Veseli Romi

Ansambl Mileta Petrovíca

Radio Martiko

Rating: ★★★★★

Mile Petrović is now something of an elder statesman, still helming the Veseli Romi, most recently as a somewhat jazzy...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Hlywing

Hlywing

Ruth Angell

Talking Elephant Records

Rating: ★★★★

After working with the likes of Ashley Hutchings and Rufus Wainwight, Ruth Angell finally records her debut solo album, and...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Fun An Altn Klezmer Heft: Beautiful Music from Old Manuscripts

Fun An Altn Klezmer Heft: Beautiful Music from Old Manuscripts

Susi Evans & Szilvia Csaranko

Shades of Folk

Rating: ★★★★

Susi Evans is a dynamic clarinettist from Shekoyokh and this is her second duo album with Hungarian-born, German-based accordionist Szilvia...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

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