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Review of Wolf Rune

Wolf Rune

Sinikka Langeland

Top of the World

ECM

Rating: ★★★★★

Being in a room with Sinikka Langeland is like being charmed into a northern forest under a night sky. Her...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Review of The Silver Sun

The Silver Sun

Eamon O’Leary

Reveal Records

Rating: ★★★

Although recorded in less than a single day, there is nothing rushed or hurried about Eamon O’Leary’s characteristically laid-back third...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Review of Lastenkerääjä

Lastenkerääjä

Akkajee

Akkajee

Rating: ★★★★

Akkajee are a Finnish band of two akkas, a term they define as a ‘head-strong woman with a decisive attitude...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Review of Drömmaren

Drömmaren

Elin Jonsson

Elin Jonsson

Rating: ★★★

Elin Jonsson is a fiddle player from the north of Sweden making her solo debut with this new release. Growing...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Review of Meridiana

Meridiana

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino

Top of the World

Ponderosa Records

Rating: ★★★★★

‘Meridiana is about our relationship with time, its perception. As southerners we are defined by our connection with the sun,...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Review of Seaspeak

Seaspeak

Joe Danks

Joe Danks

Rating: ★★★

Appropriately recorded at The Queen’s House in Greenwich, the Derbyshire-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Danks’ debut is a maritime theme...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Review of Høyre du, Mann! Langeleikopptak 1955-83

Høyre du, Mann! Langeleikopptak 1955-83

VARIOUS ARTISTS

National Library of Norway

Rating: ★★★★

The National Library of Norway is extremely good at archiving historical recordings and making their collections available for wider listening....

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Review of European Howl

European Howl

Agent Starling

DHM

Rating: ★★★

Agent Starling is an unusual duo, a pairing of hurdy-gurdy player Quentin Budworth with Louise Duffy-Howard (aka Lou Loudhailer). Back...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Review of Spirit of Love

Spirit of Love

COB

Bread and Wine Records

Rating: ★★★★

COB is the abbreviation of Clive’s Original Band though Cob, as the trio was sometimes called, is apt. Cob is...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Review of Hunter

Hunter

Christina Alden & Alex Patterson

Christina Alden & Alex Patterson

Rating: ★★★

Locked down doesn’t mean imaginations are locked up. In Hunter, song inspiration is global, despite being set down and sung...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

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