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Review of A New Day – Laya Project Remixed

A New Day – Laya Project Remixed

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Earthsync

Rating: ★★★

Back in #59, Songlines reviewed a singular music project that saw producer and composer Patrick Sebag go in search of...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Rising Sun Melodies

Rising Sun Melodies

Ola Belle Reed

Smithsonian Folkways

Rating: ★★★★

Ola Belle Reed was born in 1916, in rural Appalachia and grew up in a family so poor they didn't...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Lumiere

Lumiere

Lumiere

IRL

Rating: ★★★★

The eponymous debut offering from Lumiere heralds an impressive and altogether bewitching partnership between seasoned vocalists Éilís Kennedy and Patricia...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Transatlantic Sessions 4: Volume 2

Transatlantic Sessions 4: Volume 2

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Whirlie Records

Rating: ★★★★

The second CD release taken from last year's fourth outing of the Transatlantic Sessions TV series captures – much better...

Reviewed by Sue Wilson in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Time of the Skeleton Lords

Time of the Skeleton Lords

Tashi Lhunpo Monks

30ips

Rating: ★★★★

The monastery of Tashi Lhunpo, seat of the Panchen Lama (second only to the Dalai Lama), is probably the most...

Reviewed by Mark Trewin in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of More Miles Than Money: the Soundtrack to Garth Cartwright's Book

More Miles Than Money: the Soundtrack to Garth Cartwright's Book

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ace Records

Rating: ★★★★

Garth Cartwright is fast becoming one of the most intriguing and readable music writers in the UK, his upbringing in...

Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Al Maraya

Al Maraya

Al Andaluz Project

Galileo

Rating: ★★

The giveaway is in the title. If you slip the word ‘project’ into your name, you are probably in earnest....

Reviewed by Dennis Maries in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Grannen

Grannen

Frigg

Frigg

Rating: ★★★★★

Frigg can do no wrong. I have waxed lyrical about them in these pages in the past and am beginning...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Gigi de Nissa

Gigi de Nissa

Gigi de Nissa

Manivette

Rating: ★★★

Gigi is the nom de plume of one Louis Pastorelli, a fellow traveller of Moussu T – a shared personal...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

Review of Dombra from Kazakhstan

Dombra from Kazakhstan

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Buda

Rating: ★★★

From Turkey, through Central Asia, to Xinjiang in China, the various Turkicspeaking peoples play a whole range of longnecked lutes...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2010

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