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Review of Easy and Bold

Easy and Bold

John & Tim Lyons

Veteran

Rating: ★★★

The label Veteran specialises in English, Scottish and Irish traditional folk, with a focus on the source singers you might...

Reviewed in issue July/2013

Review of Bigger Than Home

Bigger Than Home

Manu Delago

Session Work Recordings

Rating: ★★★

The hang – the flying saucer-shaped Swiss-made percussive instrument that, although played by palms and fingers, sounds not unlike a...

Reviewed in issue July/2013

Review of The Cook, the Clown, the Monk & the Accordionist

The Cook, the Clown, the Monk & the Accordionist

Maurizio Minardi

Belfagor Records

Rating: ★★★★

London-based Italian musician Maurizio Minardi ventures here into the porous terrain that lies somewhere between folk, classical, jazz and improvisation....

Reviewed in issue July/2013

Review of Holts and Hovers

Holts and Hovers

Three Cane Whale

Three Cane Whale

Rating: ★★★★

Three Cane Whale comprise Spiro member Alex Vann, Get The Blessing’s trumpeter Pete Judge and guitarist Paul Bradley of the...

Reviewed in issue July/2013

Review of Oes i Oes

Oes i Oes

Cass Meurig & Nial Cain

Cass Meurig & Nial Cain

Rating: ★★★★

Cass Meurig and Nial Cain have worked together for a number of years now. Their intimate and sensitive renditions of...

Reviewed in issue June/2013

Review of Quercus

Quercus

Quercus (June Tabor, Iain Ballamy, Huw Warren)

ECM Records

Rating: ★★★★

Quercus means ‘oak’ in Latin, and the oak is steeped in folklore from root to crown. So is the music...

Reviewed in issue June/2013

Review of You Have Already Gone to the Other World

You Have Already Gone to the Other World

A Hawk and a Hacksaw

LM Duplication

Rating: ★★★★

The New Mexico-based duo of Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost have spent the last year touring their live score for...

Reviewed in issue June/2013

Review of BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2013

BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2013

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Proper Folk (3 CDs,)

Rating: ★★★★★

At just over two hours long, and with 31 tracks from artists such as Kathleen MacInnes, Lau, Karine Polwart and...

Reviewed in issue June/2013

Review of Tooth & Nail

Tooth & Nail

Billy Bragg

Cooking Vinyl

Rating: ★★★★

When you’re used to hearing Barking¬born Billy tetchily dissecting the state of the British nation in his sardonic foghorn of...

Reviewed in issue June/2013

Review of Desfado

Desfado

Ana Moura

Top of the World

Universal

Rating: ★★★★

By the time Ana Moura released her fourth album in 2009, Leva-me aos Fados, she had gone as far as...

Reviewed in issue June/2013

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