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Review of Live On Tour: Union Chapel November 2010

Live On Tour: Union Chapel November 2010

Various Artists

Scarlet Records

Rating: ★★★

There's not been, to my knowledge, a live album from Norma Waterson. So give a warm hand, please, for this...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012

Review of Old Chairs to Mend

Old Chairs to Mend

David Gibb & Elly Lucas

Hairpin Records

Rating: ★★★

David Gibb's second solo album, There Are Birds in My Garden [reviewed in #79] revealed the adventurous musical mind of...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012

Review of The Woodbine & Ivy Band

The Woodbine & Ivy Band

The Woodbine & Ivy Band

Folk Police Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

This Manchester collective create spirited folk-rock of a distinctly 1969 vintage. The rapid-fire drums, guttural guitar, throbbing bass and backing...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2012

Review of Victor Menace!!!

Victor Menace!!!

Victor Menace

River Rat Records

Rating: ★★★

Victor Menace sounds like a cartoon debt collector but is in fact Ruth Theodore’s new band. Her previous album, White...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of Aye

Aye

Martyn Bennett

Top of the World

Cuillin Music

Rating: ★★★★★

Martyn Bennett, a native of St Johns, Newfoundland, who grew up in Speyside with his mother, the singer and folklorist...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of Italy: Music of the Albanians of Calabria

Italy: Music of the Albanians of Calabria

VARIOUS ARTISTS

VDE-Gallo

Rating: ★★★

The outcome of Fabrice Contri’s fieldworks in northern Calabria between 2009 and 2010, this album features music of the Arbëreshë,...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of We Know Where the Time Goes

We Know Where the Time Goes

The FLK

ECC Records

Rating: ★★★

Cut and paste is part and parcel of modern culture. What William S Burroughs did with print in the 1950s,...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of Folk Tale

Folk Tale

Christy Moore

Columbia

Rating: ★★★★

Now in his mid 60s, the iconic Irish folk trou¬badour still packs a punch, if this latest offering is anything...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of Brass Noir: On the Trans-Balkan Highway

Brass Noir: On the Trans-Balkan Highway

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Piranha

Rating: ★★★★

Piranha Records was the first world music label to effectively promote Balkan brass – issuing seminal albums by Boban i...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

Review of En Mi Piel

En Mi Piel

Buika

Warner Music

Rating: ★★★★

Flamenco artists continue to coin new genres. The Mallorca-born African gitana Concha Buika takes flamenco’s pained message and impassioned spirit...

Reviewed in issue March/2012

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