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Review of Hangszín

Hangszín

Mónika Lakatos and the Gipsy Voices

FolkEurópa

Rating: ★★★

The Oláh Roma of Hungary are a minority within a minority, having moved to Hungary and other areas of Central...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of Simply Whistle

Simply Whistle

Pat Walsh

Bunowen Music

Rating: ★★★★

Manchester-based tin whistle player Pat Walsh is considered one of the best in the game and this new set of...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of Bonfrost

Bonfrost

The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc

Top of the World

The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc

Rating: ★★★★

When they got together in 2009 The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc were something of a curiosity: three outstanding string players from...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of Hidden Soul of the Fjords

Hidden Soul of the Fjords

Heidi Torsvik & Lazerus Winter

NXN Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Heidi Torsvik and Lazerus Winter's Hidden Soul of the Fjords invites you to take a Nordic journey of discovery and...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of About Towers

About Towers

WÖR

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

‘New energy for old Belgian music' is the ringing slogan adopted by the five musicians of WÖR. Their mission to...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of Wiązanka

Wiązanka

WoWaKin

Top of the World

BaBa Sound Studio

Rating: ★★★★

The opening track of Wiązanka (The Bunch) launches us straight into a wild mazurka in the spirit of a rural...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of Riddle Songs

Riddle Songs

Stef Conner

Delphian Records

Rating: ★★★

We know from poems such as Beowulf, which mentions warriors singing praise songs, and Caedmon's ‘Hymn’, a divine inspired song,...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of Bellanöva

Bellanöva

Bellanöva

Felmay

Rating: ★★★★

The Four Provinces is an area pertaining to four distinct administrative subdivisions located in four different Italian regions (Lombardy, Piedmont,...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of In Which

In Which

The Teacups

Haystack Records

Rating: ★★★

Alex Cumming, Kate Locksley, Rosie Calvert and Will Finn met in 2010 on the Folk and Traditional Music degree course...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

Review of When the Sun Goes In

When the Sun Goes In

Simon Robinson

Simon Robinson

Rating: ★★★

After touring extensively for 12 years with the band Maia, Robinson has recently preferred to explore the more traditional roots...

Reviewed in issue March/2021

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