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Review of Glasshouses

Glasshouses

James Lascelles Quartet

Orme Records

Rating: ★

Keyboardist Lascelles was a founder member of the Global Village Trucking Company in the early 1970s, going on to become...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: November/2017

Review of From the Rich Dark Earth

From the Rich Dark Earth

Abraham Brody

Abraham Brody

Rating: ★★★★

Singer and violinist Abraham Brody was born and raised in the US, but for the last five years has been...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2017

Review of Seekers and Finders

Seekers and Finders

Gogol Bordello

Cooking Vinyl

Rating: ★★

What's left to say about Gypsy punk outfit Gogol Bordello? Not much on the strength of this, their seventh album....

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: November/2017

Review of Ketan

Ketan

Blay Ambolley

Agogo Records

Rating: ★★★★

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is a highlife singer and multi-instrumentalist from the coastal city of Sekondi-Takoradi in the western region of Ghana....

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2017

Review of Dead Man's Dance

Dead Man's Dance

Alaw

Taith Records

Rating: ★★★

Guitarist Dylan Fowler, accordionist Jamie Smith and violinist Oliver Wilson-Dickson have all worked together on projects such as The Devil's...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2017

Review of A Day a Month

A Day a Month

Mairearad Green & Mike Vass

Buie Records

Rating: ★★★★

It is hard to believe that A Day a Month is the first collaboration of those ubiquitous stalwarts of the...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: November/2017

Review of Windrose

Windrose

The Routes Quartet

Routes Records

Rating: ★★★

A fair few classical string quartets – most recently the Danish String Quartet – have developed traditional music side projects....

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: November/2017

Review of Sven Nyhus Kvintett

Sven Nyhus Kvintett

Sven Nyhus Kvintett

Heilo Records

Rating: ★★★★

The 85-year-old Sven Nyhus is a major figure in the history of Norwegian traditional music: a fiddler, composer and musicologist...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2017

Review of Ladilikan

Ladilikan

Trio da Kali & Kronos Quartet

World Circuit

Rating: ★★★★★

This album is a sublime meeting of two superb chamber groups. On the one hand there is San Francisco's string...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2017

Review of Strangers

Strangers

The Young'Uns

Hereteu Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Teesside vocal trio of Sean Cooney, David Eagle and Michael Hughes have captured hearts – and awards – with...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: November/2017

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