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Review of Live at Perthshire Amber

Live at Perthshire Amber

Julie Fowlis

Machair Records

Rating: ★★★

Julie Fowlis is now a fine ambassador for the music, song and culture of her Outer Hebridean homeland and this...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011

Review of A Tiempo

A Tiempo

Rosario La Tremendita

Top of the World

World Village

Rating: ★★★★

Hailing from Triana, Seville's one time Gypsy quartei and home of classic flamenco, Rosario Guerrero Hernández, aka ‘La Tremendita’, has...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011

Review of Beginner’s Guide to Celtic

Beginner’s Guide to Celtic

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Nascente

Rating: ★★★★

How do you avoid the inevitable clichés of ‘Celticness’? This three-CD beginner's compilation has set itself an unenviable task. BBC...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011

Review of Zhyli-Byli

Zhyli-Byli

Sergei Starostin

Jaro

Rating: ★★

Sergei Starostin is a major figure on the Russian folk scene, yet he’s still all too little known, despite his...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011

Review of Some Kind of Certainty

Some Kind of Certainty

Ewan Robertson

Greentrax

Rating: ★★★

Breabach member and 2008 Young Traditional Musician of the Year award winner Ewan Robertson opens his debut release with a...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011

Review of Buskers’ Ballroom

Buskers’ Ballroom

She’koyokh Klezmer Ensemble

Top of the World

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★★

First of all, don't be put off by the cheesy cover. She’koyokh are Britain's best klezmer and Balkan music band....

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011

Review of Anamkhara

Anamkhara

Kelly Thoma

Seistron

Rating: ★★★★

Piraeus-born Cretan lyra player Kelly Thoma is a pupil of Ross Daly and a part of the diverse group of...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011

Review of Canu Rhydd

Canu Rhydd

Fernhill

Disgyfrith

Rating: ★★★★

The literal translation of Canu Rhydd is ‘free poetry’; with their latest album Fernhill continue their pioneering exploration of vernacular...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011

Review of My Gypsy Waltz

My Gypsy Waltz

Eduardo Niebla

LMR Records

Rating: ★★★★

The spiritual journey flamenco guitarist Eduardo Niebla takes with these eight pieces is rooted in various families: his own family,...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011

Review of Shadows Tall

Shadows Tall

Jeana Leslie & Siobhan Miller

Greentrax

Rating: ★★★★

The award-winning pairing of singer and pianist Siobhan Miller from Penicuik near Edinburgh and singer and fiddler Jeana Leslie from...

Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2011

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