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Review of What We Leave Behind

What We Leave Behind

The East Pointers

East Pointers Music

Rating: ★★★

Produced in Nashville by fellow Canadian songwriter and producer Gordie Sampson, the follow-up to the splendid debut album Secret Victory...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2017

Review of Tigre

Tigre

Banda Magda

Verve

Rating: ★★★

Tigre, Banda Magda's third album (which is subtitled Stories of Courage and Fearlessness) is a polished affair, swathed in lush...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: November/2017

Review of Simplify

Simplify

Bob Hillary

Bob Hillary

Rating: ★★

At a time when technology is turning human beings into human ‘doings’ in a relentless struggle for power and money,...

Reviewed by Leander Hobbs in issue: November/2017

Review of Pretty Peggy

Pretty Peggy

Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys

Navigator Records

Rating: ★★★

The second album from the Cornish-based singer, Britain's Got Talent finalist and BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner develops the...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2017

Review of Dañs!

Dañs!

Yann-Fañch Kemener Trio

Coop Breizh

Rating: ★★★★

Take a voice steeped in Breton tradition, team it with two musicians from a younger generation, and have another look...

Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: November/2017

Review of Original

Original

Bobby Osborne

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★

Bobby Osborne's latest album is an engaging compendium of tunes by some of Memphis' finest songwriters, from the 86-year-old high-lonesome...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2017

Review of Songs of Lalon Shah

Songs of Lalon Shah

Farida Parveen

Ocora Radio France

Rating: ★★★★

The Bengali poet Lalon Shah, popularly known as Moner Manush (Man of the Heart), is the most celebrated of the...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2017

Review of Mollevit

Mollevit

Habadekuk

Go Danish Folk Music

Rating: ★★★★

A decade ago, a handful of folk and jazz students at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in southern...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2017

Review of Liquid Love

Liquid Love

Onom Agemo & the Disco Jumpers

Agogo Records

Rating: ★★

Any album from a band with a name this bizarre is sure to be eclectic and Liquid Love is just...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: November/2017

Review of Frost on Fiddles

Frost on Fiddles

Frigg

Frigg

Rating: ★★★★★

One of my enduring WOMAD memories is of a cold, wet, muddy night in 2007 when the seven-piece Finnish band...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: November/2017

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