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Review of Tomorrow Will Follow Today

Tomorrow Will Follow Today

Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman

Iscream Music Records

Rating: ★★★

A young man refuses to sleep with his uncle's wife. She stabs herself and blames the boy. His uncle has...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2015

Review of It is Time for You to Return

It is Time for You to Return

Jozef van Wissem

Crammed Discs

Rating: ★

Jozef van Wissem is a baroque lute player and self-styled avant-garde composer who recently came to prominence for his soundtrack...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: March/2015

Review of The Search for Five Finger Frank

The Search for Five Finger Frank

Pete Coe & Alice Jones

Backshift Music (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★

This mammoth set – 27 tracks in all – aims to rescue from obscurity the memory of Leeds folk-song collector...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2015

Review of Movimento

Movimento

Aline Frazão

Ponto Zurca

Rating: ★★

You could say that Aline Frazão is the Mayra Andrade of Angola – a singer who has made a concerted...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2015

Review of Tradition 2.1

Tradition 2.1

Korrontzi

ARC Music (CD & DVD)

Rating: ★★

Embedded in ‘Iskitzeko Aldian’, the track right at the heart of this album, is part of a radio broadcast from...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2015

Review of The Art of the Mongolian Yatga

The Art of the Mongolian Yatga

Chinbat Baasankhuu

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

The yatga is a Mongolian zither (similar to a Chinese guzheng or Japanese koto), which Baasankhuu performs confidently upon, whether...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: March/2015

Review of Pancada Motor: Manifesto da Festa

Pancada Motor: Manifesto da Festa

DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★

One of Alfredo Bello's passions is to create field recordings of Afro-Brazilian traditions and religious ceremonies. These recordings then serve...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2015

Review of Akory

Akory

Razia

Cumbancha

Rating: ★★★

This is the second album from Razia Said, a singer-songwriter and highly proactive environmentalist who hails from Antalaha in the...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2015

Review of Mount the Air

Mount the Air

The Unthanks

Top of the World

Rabble Rouser

Rating: ★★★★★

Two years in the making, in their own studio in an old granary building in Northumberland, this utterly enthralling album...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2015

Review of Stundai

Stundai

Liguriani

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

The well-rounded Liguriani have established themselves as one of the most remarkable voices in traditional music to recently come out...

Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2015

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