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Review of Native Music 15: Traditional, Folk & World Music from Latvia

Native Music 15: Traditional, Folk & World Music from Latvia

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Skani

Rating: ★★★

Throughout their history the peoples of the Baltic have, sometimes at great cost, maintained their national and cultural identities, in...

Reviewed in issue April/2021

Review of Grifone

Grifone

Pulcinella & Maria Mazzotta

Compagnie Pulcinella

Rating: ★★★★

A primadonna in contemporary Italian folk, Maria Mazzotta lives between her hometown Salento and the French Pyrenees. She has a...

Reviewed in issue April/2021

Review of Jubel

Jubel

Majorstuen

Majorstuen Fiddlers Company

Rating: ★★★★

Two decades ago a group of young folk musicians said farewell to the Norwegian State Music Academy and decided to...

Reviewed in issue April/2021

Review of Solas an Lae

Solas an Lae

Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & Ultan O'Brien

Top of the World

Watercolour Music

Rating: ★★★★

Fiddler Ultan O'Brien and singer Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin have been one of Ireland's best-kept secrets in recent years. Having first...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of Jamboree: The Album

Jamboree: The Album

Oily Cart

Oily Cart

Rating: ★★★

Now here's a really cheering and worthwhile project, which is exactly what you would expect from Oily Cart. It's a...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of Henry Martin

Henry Martin

Edgelarks

Top of the World

Dragonfly Roots

Rating: ★★★★

Some voices just hit you right in the guts. One of those is that of Hannah Martin – the Devon...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of La Giostra

La Giostra

Kërkim

Liburia Records

Rating: ★★★

Kërkim (Albanian for ‘Research’) is an Apulian five-piece outfit augmented with a few guests. The result might be wrongly filed...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of In the Furrows of Common Place

In the Furrows of Common Place

Jim Ghedi

Basin Rock

Rating: ★★★

Drawing on the poetry of John Clare, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris' The Lost Words and South Yorkshire writer Barry...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of Start

Start

Félix Lajkó

Fonó Records

Rating: ★★★

From the very first note, there's no mistaking that this is a Félix Lajkó album. The opening chord is the...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of Strømmen

Strømmen

Helene Blum & Harald Haugaard

Galileo

Rating: ★★★★

Helene Blum has already achieved phenomenal success in her native Denmark, including a No 1 hit as a folk singer...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

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