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Review of Battlefield Dance Floor

Battlefield Dance Floor

Show of Hands

Proper Music

Rating: ★★★

This 18th studio album from Devon favourites Show of Hands treads territory their loyal fans know so well – a...

Reviewed in issue November/2019

Review of Lummen

Lummen

Sirus

Kråktjärn

Rating: ★★★★

An album of depth and soul, this is an impressive debut for Sirus. There are strong influences from Scandinavia (the...

Reviewed in issue November/2019

Review of Benedicte Maurseth

Benedicte Maurseth

Benedicte Maurseth

heilo

Rating: ★★★

Benedicte Maurseth is a pre-eminent player of the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Unlike the conventional violin, a Hardanger fiddle has four...

Reviewed in issue November/2019

Review of Awaken

Awaken

The Schmoozenbergs

Ear Trumpet Music

Rating: ★★

Their name is certainly as playful as the music: a blend of distinctly old-school Parisian swing and Gypsy jazz with...

Reviewed in issue November/2019

Review of The Road to Peterloo

The Road to Peterloo

Coe, Peters & Smyth

Backshift Music

Rating: ★★★

Two centuries ago, mounted and armed troopers viciously waded into thousands of men, women and children who were gathered peacefully...

Reviewed in issue November/2019

Review of Old Friends & Exhausted Enemies

Old Friends & Exhausted Enemies

Luke Daniels

Gael Music

Rating: ★★★★

Luke Daniels' four solo albums since his days as the well-respected button accordion virtuoso heard on Riverdance or with the...

Reviewed in issue November/2019

Review of Dentro Desse Mar

Dentro Desse Mar

Danças Ocultas

Top of the World

Galileo

Rating: ★★★★

The accordion might sound neither very dancy nor particularly occult, but this quartet from Águeda near Porto do something with...

Reviewed in issue November/2019

Review of Visuma Vizoša Tumsa

Visuma Vizoša Tumsa

ZeMe

CPL-Music

Rating: ★★

ZeMe was created by two Latvian musicians: DJ Monsta (Uldis Cirulis) and kokle (traditional Latvian zither) master Laima Jansone. Their...

Reviewed in issue November/2019

Review of Mediterranean Quartet

Mediterranean Quartet

Matia Levréro & Tcha Limberger

Lejazzetal Records

Rating: ★★

Belgian Gypsy violinist Tcha Limberger has featured several times in these pages for his excellent jazz manouche, Hungarian Gypsy and...

Reviewed in issue November/2019

Review of Ked’ Vojačik Narukoval

Ked’ Vojačik Narukoval

Zuzana Homolová Trio

Slnko Records

Rating: ★★★

I love the design of this album. With its distressed sleeve and retro typography, it looks like something I might...

Reviewed in issue November/2019

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