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Review of Op 2

Op 2

Stanislav Yudin & Asnate Rancane

CPL-Music

Rating: ★★★★

Op 1 doesn't seem to exist, as an album anyway. But if Op 2 is anything to go by then...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Review of Borrowed Songs

Borrowed Songs

Ewan McLennan

Ewan McLennan

Rating: ★★★

It is rare to hear an album that confronts you with such a powerful sense of who a person is...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Review of Det Var en Lørdagsafen

Det Var en Lørdagsafen

Firo

Etnisk Musikklubb

Rating: ★★★

Saturday night's alright for, well, in this case, singing! Firo's new release translates as ‘Once on a Saturday Night’ and...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Review of The Soul of Epirus

The Soul of Epirus

Petroloukas Halkias & Vasilis Kostas

Artway Thechnotropon

Rating: ★★★

Petroloukas Halkias (also spelled Chalkias) is a revered 85-year-old clarinettist, while Vasilis Kostas is a rising player of the eight-stringed...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Review of Torb

Torb

Els Berros de la Cort

Segell Microscopi

Rating: ★★

One day Songlines will have to invent a prize for ‘most niche’ music genre and performer. Catalan medieval folk will...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Review of Sambol Amore Migrante

Sambol Amore Migrante

Guappecarto

CSB Productions

Rating: ★★★★

If the tale that inspired this arresting album had been filmed by Federico Fellini, this would be its soundtrack. It's...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Review of To Tiår

To Tiår

Kvarts

Kvarts

Rating: ★★★

Norwegian quartet Kvarts return with their eighth album To Tiår. Featuring a multi-instrumental line-up spanning 12 tracks, Jo Asgeir Lie,...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Review of Little Bird

Little Bird

Megson

EDJ Records

Rating: ★★★★

More incisive, searing social and political commentary revealing how folk music can speak as much for our times as it...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Review of Django l'Impressionniste

Django l'Impressionniste

Stéphane Wrembel

Water is Life Records

Rating: ★★★★

Perhaps best known for his Grammy-winning soundtrack to Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, this French-born guitarist and composer has virtually...

Reviewed in issue March/2020

Review of Imaginary Soundtrack

Imaginary Soundtrack

Paolo Russo

Odradek Records

Rating: ★★★

The newest album by the prolific Copenhagen-based composer Paolo Russo is inspired by music for the films of his native...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2020

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