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Review of Do Coração

Do Coração

Sara Correia

Universal Music Portugal

Rating: ★★★

Last year, we praised Sara Correia’s first adult album (she had released a previous one in her adolescence) as a...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2020

Review of A Casual Invocation

A Casual Invocation

Cunning Folk

Dharma Records

Rating: ★★★★

George Hoyle, aka Cunning Folk, is a folklorist, storyteller, folk artist, magical ritualist, a former member of Gay Dad, Circulus,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2020

Review of Nyaaringu

Nyaaringu

Miiesha

EMI Australia

Rating: ★★★

The well-deserved winner of Best New Talent at this year’s National Indigenous Music Awards, 21-year-old Miiesha Young’s career is on...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: December/2020

Review of The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect

Ranjana Ghatak

Revolver

Rating: ★★★★

British singer Ranjana Ghatak is well-known for her work uniting North Indian and Western musics, especially jazz, working with some...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2020

Review of Stopy

Stopy

Michal Noga Band

Michal Noga Band

Rating: ★★★★★

In the last decades, the living folk traditions of Eastern Europe have changed from traditional to revival. The Michal Noga...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2020

Review of First Steps

First Steps

Brown Boots

Brown Boots

Rating: ★★★

Fiddler Martin Clarke and melodeon player Will Allen are Brown Boots, fine players and purveyors of trad dance tunes –...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2020

Review of Abrazo

Abrazo

Vincent Peirani

Top of the World

ACT

Rating: ★★★★

Warm, tango-inspired runnings from the Paris-based duo of accordionist Vincent Peirani and soprano saxophonist Emile Parisien, whose palpable rapport has...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2020

Review of Vikings Memories

Vikings Memories

SKÁLD

Decca

Rating: ★★

SKÁLD take their name from the Norse balladeers who told tales of gods and men in the medieval past. The...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2020

Review of Faerie Fire Dances

Faerie Fire Dances

Marc Block

Glasspool Music

Rating: ★★★

Marc Block has been on the folk scene since the mid-1980s, a self-described ‘rootsy Radical Faerie singer of original and...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2020

Review of Meeting

Meeting

AGA Trio

Naxos World

Rating: ★★★

As travel becomes ever more constrained, transborder musical projects continue to flourish although the recent violent flare-up of the conflict...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: December/2020

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