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Review of Lo Mau d'Amor

Lo Mau d'Amor

Trobairitz d'Oc

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

Singers Paola Lombardo and Valeria Benigni are vocalists with distinctively different qualities: the former retaining her jazz upbringing, the latter...

Reviewed in issue June/2011

Review of The Impossible Song & Other Songs

The Impossible Song & Other Songs

Roddy Woomble

Greenvoe/EMI

Rating: ★★★

The former Idlewild singer follows his acclaimed album Before the Ruin, made as a trio with guitarist and singer Kris...

Reviewed in issue June/2011

Review of Festival Bell

Festival Bell

Fairport Convention

Matty Grooves

Rating: ★★★

Umpteen albums have come and gone since the original Fairport line-up started playing West Coast pop covers in 1967. As...

Reviewed in issue June/2011

Review of Tyro

Tyro

Rua MacMillan

Top of the World

Greentrax

Rating: ★★★★

What an assured and brilliant debut this is. Rua Macmillan was awarded the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of...

Reviewed in issue June/2011

Review of Oak Ash Thorn

Oak Ash Thorn

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Folk Police Records

Rating: ★★★★

The legend and music of Peter Bellamy looms large over the new generation of British folk stars. Many of them...

Reviewed in issue June/2011

Review of Essential

Essential

Martin Carthy

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★★

To celebrate the 70th birthday of England's foremost folk singer, the country's most original and innovative guitarist and a man...

Reviewed in issue June/2011

Review of Coliseu

Coliseu

Ana Moura

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

In June 2008, following the success of her third studio album, Para Além da Saudade, Ana Moura gave two concerts,...

Reviewed in issue June/2011

Review of Hungarian World Music: 70s-80s

Hungarian World Music: 70s-80s

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Folk Europa

Rating: ★★★

For anyone interested in Hungarian music, this is a very useful overview of the last 40 years, since the beginning...

Reviewed in issue June/2011

Review of Pulling Threads

Pulling Threads

Michelle Burke

Kilcronat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Having earned her spurs with Irish-American powerhouse outfit Cherish the Ladies, East Cork's Michelle Burke ventures out on her own...

Reviewed in issue June/2011

Review of Tir

Tir

Cerys Matthews

Rainbow City Records

Rating: ★★★★

Tir is one of the words in Welsh for ‘Land’, but, more than its English equivalent, it suggests a connection...

Reviewed in issue June/2011

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