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Review of Ragged Kingdom

Ragged Kingdom

June Tabor & Oysterband

Top of the World

Topic

Rating: ★★★★★

It's 21 years since June Tabor and Oysterband released Freedom & Rain. Ragged Kingdom is a triumphant return that mixes...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of Carn Ingli

Carn Ingli

Llio Rhydderch & Tomos Williams

Fflach

Rating: ★★★★

A revered harpist, steeped in the music of Wales; a young jazz trumpeter; and a percussionist. This might seem an...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of At Complete Ease

At Complete Ease

John Carty & Brian Rooney

Racket Records

Rating: ★★★★

Fiddler Brian Rooney first met banjoist John Carty in London in the early 1970s. At that time there was a...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of November

November

Annlaug

Fivreld

Rating: ★★★★

Annlaug Borsheim is a fiddler, guitarist and singer-songwriter from Norway, whose frequent journeys across the North Sea to explore and...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of Hollie Cook

Hollie Cook

Hollie Cook

Mr Bongo Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Music is in Hollie Cook's blood. Her father is Sex Pistols’ drummer Paul Cook. Having grown up in West London,...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of Tãn

Tãn

Lleuwen

Gwymon Records

Rating: ★★★

Singer Lleuwen Steffan first made her mark in 2005 with Duw a Wyr (God Only Knows) an original, jazzy take...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of Foxlight

Foxlight

larla Ó Lionáird

Real World

Rating: ★★

It's taken the County Cork-born former Afro Celts singer six years to follow up his staggeringly visceral Invisible Fields, which...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of Liguriani

Liguriani

Liguriani

Felmay

Rating: ★★★

A strip of mixed people and sounds, Liguria lies in Italy's north-west, a region squeezed between rugged hill tops and...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of Line-Up

Line-Up

Battlefield Band

Temple Records

Rating: ★★★

Like Fairport Convention, Battle– field Band have a good four decades of music-making behind them, drawing on the rich heritage...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Review of How to Tune a Fish

How to Tune a Fish

Beoga

Compass Records

Rating: ★★

Just four years since the Irish band's debut A Lovely Madness comes Beoga's fourth album How to Tune a Fish...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

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