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Review of Junkerpunch

Junkerpunch

Hillfolk Noir

Hillfolk Noir

Rating: ★★★

Hillfolk Noir are a trio of banjo, fiddle and double bass who hail from Boise, Idaho. The band are led...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: August/2017

Review of Lamomali

Lamomali

Lamomali

Labo M/Wagram Music

Rating: ★★

There is an uncredited English saying: ‘Be not deceived with the appearance of things, for show is not substance.’ It...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: August/2017

Review of The Tin Fiddle

The Tin Fiddle

Damien McGeehan

Damien McGeehan

Rating: ★★★

Your ears could be forgiven for presuming there was at least one percussionist, guitarist or mandolin player on this album....

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: August/2017

Review of The Seventh Wave

The Seventh Wave

Skipinnish

Skipinnish

Rating: ★★★★

If you were lucky enough to witness Skipinnish at Celtic Connections in 2016, at a Glasgow Royal Concert Hall packed...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: August/2017

Review of Amerika

Amerika

Dimitris Mystakidis

Fishbowl Records

Rating: ★★★

Music professor and folk guitar virtuoso Dimitris Mystakidis has been performing, teaching and writing books about rebetika for over two...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: August/2017

Review of Before I Crack

Before I Crack

The Bookshop Band

Letterpress Records

Rating: ★★★

It is often said that expectant parents begin a sudden flurry of activity prior to the arrival of the newborn...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: August/2017

Review of Kin Sonic

Kin Sonic

Jupiter & Okwess

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★

There's a lot of laughter in this second album by the Congo's Jupiter & Okwess. Dramatic, over-the-top ‘mwa-ha-ha's from the...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2017

Review of Nightfall

Nightfall

Quercus

ECM Records

Rating: ★★★★

June Tabor, saxophonist Iain Bellamy and pianist Huw Warren released their award-winning debut on ECM back in 2013, and this...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/2017

Review of Affinity

Affinity

Atlas

Ropeadope Records

Rating: ★★★★

Atlas are two natives of Limerick, Ireland: Cillian Doheny, guitarist and lynchpin of Moxie, and concertina player Cillian King. Their...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: August/2017

Review of White African Power

White African Power

Tanzania Albinism Collective

Six Degrees

Rating: ★★★

It's a bold and ambitious idea to enter an isolated community who have no experience of singing and ask them...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: August/2017

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