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Review of Light Ida Lum

Light Ida Lum

Haltadans

Haltadans

Rating: ★★★★

In the grand tradition of the currently inactive Fiddler's Bid, whose Maurice Henderson features in this group's three-fiddle frontline, Haltadans...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2020

Review of Unearth Repeat

Unearth Repeat

Sam Sweeney

Top of the World

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Following on from his Island Records’ debut, The Unfinished Violin, England's premier fiddler releases a small band album with a...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020

Review of Orígenes

Orígenes

Sotomayor

Wonderwheel Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Since emerging from Mexico Cith's indie music scene a few years ago, the brother-sister duo Sotomayor have formulated their own...

Reviewed by Patrick Mcmahon in issue: May/2020

Review of Tamotaït

Tamotaït

Tamikrest

Top of the World

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

If the mighty Tinariwen are the gate-opening Beatles of Touareg guitar music and Songhoy Blues are the genre's answer to...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2020

Review of Fragmentarium

Fragmentarium

Erlend Apneseth

Hubro

Rating: ★★★★

Norwegian Hardanger fiddler Apneseth hosts his biggest band so far, a sextet featuring percussion, bass, accordion, guitar and keyboards, this...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: May/2020

Review of Break the Dawn

Break the Dawn

iyatraQuartet

iyatraQuartet

Rating: ★★★

iyatraQuartet fuse Western with Indian classical and Arabic traditions, with the four players - violinist Alice Barron, who studied Karnatic...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2020

Review of In the Moment: Improvisations and Compositions

In the Moment: Improvisations and Compositions

John Hemmersam & Asal Malekzadeh

Naxos World

Rating: ★★

John Hemmersam (Denmark) and Asal Malekzadeh (Iran) can be heard on this recording playing acoustic guitars and daf respectively. The...

Reviewed by Michael Galea in issue: May/2020

Review of Ravi Shankar: Sukanya

Ravi Shankar: Sukanya

London Philharmonic Orchestra

BBC

Rating: ★★★★

Ravi Shankar began writing his last major work when he was 90. An opera based on an ancient Sanskrit tale...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2020

Review of Seasons of India

Seasons of India

Baluji Shrivastav

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

The premise of this disc is a journey by raga through a year of seasons, from monsoon to summer. This...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: May/2020

Review of Frixx

Frixx

Frigg

Frigg

Rating: ★★★★

The double X of the Finnish fiddlers' album title has nothing to do with the content; rather, it is a...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: May/2020

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