FolkWorld #49 11/2012

CD & DVD Reviews

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Gillie Mackenzie "Griais" Scotland
Fiona J Mackenzie "Archipelago" Scotland
Kilmarnock Edition "Pay it forward" Scotland
Andar "Storms" Belgium / Scotland / Ireland / Netherlands
Blair Douglas "Leanaidh Mi - I will follow" Scotland
Fribo "Happ" Scotland / Norway / Sweden
Municipale Balcanica "Offbeat" Italy
Macmaster & Hay "Hook" Scotland
Chris Lea "Scarecrow" England
Various Artists "No pasaran! Scots in the Spanish Civil War" Scotland
Hal Parfitt-Murray & Nikolaj Busk "Music from the Edge of the World" Denmark
Hal Parfitt-Murray & Nikolaj Busk "Music from the Edge of the World" Denmark
Amir Nasr & Joël Mozes van de Pol "Fragments of Life" Iran / Netherlands
Duo Topolino "La Stradadeicolori" Germany
Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis "Greekadelia" Greece
Radio Zastava "The Funambolik Experiment" Italy
Shir "Ashk’farad" Britain
New York Gypsy All Stars "Romantech" USA
Melech Mechaya "Melech Mechaya" Portugal
Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys "Release your shrouds" USA
The Dust Busters "Old man below" USA
Grant Langston "Working until I die" USA
Joey & Rory "His and hers" USA
The Modern Grass "High on the Mountain" Canada
Radney Foster "Del rio: Texas revisited" USA
Forest Sun "Just begun" USA
Skyline Drive "Topanga Ranch Motel" USA
Jean Perrier "Quand tu joues" France
Laura McMillan "Linger longer" USA
Ralph Stövesandt "Die singende Säge" Germany
Ljodahått "Eg stend eg seddu" Norway
Folke, Emma & Josefina "Kontakt" Sweden
Goodland Trio "Goodland Trio" Sweden
Klaus Falschlunger "Indian Air" Austria
Sigurd Brokke "Munnharpe" Norway
James Alan Shelton "The Copper Creek Sessions" USA
Uxu Kalhus "Extravagante" Portugal
Czeremszyna "Todar" Poland
Silvério Pessoa & La Talvera "Forroccitània" France / Brazil
The Hut People "Picnic" England
Vardan Grigoryan "In the Shadow of the Song" Armenia
Gundecha Brothers "Night Prayer" India
Warsaw Village Band "Nord" Poland
Ensemble Libertango "El Porteño" Germany
Pablo Aslan Quintet "Piazzolla in Brooklyn" Argentina
Dagefoer "Tender Breeze" Germany
Nils Kercher "Ancient Intimations live" Germany
Dwayne Côté & Duane Andrews "The Empress" Canada
Maria Neckam "Unison" USA
Alan Reid & Rob van Sante "The Adventures of John Paul Jones" Scotland/Netherlands
Andrea Kvintett "Andrea Kvintett" Norway
Lionel Loueke "Heritage" Benin
Sophie Cavez & Baltazar Montanaro "Escales" Belgium
Hedningarna "&" Sweden
José Roux "Mescladis" France
Ulträqäns "Ulträqäns" Spain
Renaud Lhoest "From Anastasia" Belgium
Zhambäi Trio "Tambanavo" Canada / Zimbabwe
Dead Combo "Lisboa Mulata" Portugal
Oratnitza "Oratnitza" Bulgaria
Alamaailman Vasarat "Valta" Finland
Trio Tekke "Samas" Greece
John Moloney "Grace" Ireland
The Blues Broads "The Blues Broads" USA
Claes Ottelid "Alonso’s Tune" Sweden
Philippe B "Variations Fantomes" Canada
Aaron Novik "Secrets of Secrets" USA
Stockholm Lisboa Project "Aurora" Sweden / Portugal
Virelai "Fra bølger og bjerge" Denmark
Drones and Bellows "Fae yoking’time tae lowsin time" Denmark / Germany
Jon Anders Halvorsen "Komme no heim" Norway
Corin Curschellas "La grischa" Switzerland
Jaywalkers "Early for a Thursday" Britain
Golec uOrkiestra "Koncert Kolęd i Pastorałek" Poland
Matthias Frey & Basem Darwisch "Cairo Steps" Germany / Egypt
Buzuki Orhan Osman "Turkophony" Turkey
Labo Ttega "Emola" Switzerland
Cologne World Jazz Ensemble "Armenische Tänze" Germany
Laïla Amezian "Triode" Morocco
Tré "Brissago" Switzerland
Kat Parra "Las aventuras de passion" USA
Kat Parra "Las aventuras de !PASÍON!" USA
Tupelo "Dirty Money" Ireland
Tupelo "Dirty money" Ireland
Annie Grace "The Bell" Scotland
Fling "Fling" Ireland
The Duplets "Leverage" Scotland
The Be Good Tanyas "A Collection (2000-2012)" Canada
Sliotar "Fine Friends" Ireland
Damaris Woods "With a Banjo on My Knee" Ireland
Kieran Fahy / Jacques Pirotton "The Emigrant's Lament" Belgium
Lyy "två" Sweden
Jamie Laval "Murmurs and Drones" USA
Jesse Ferguson "The Parting Glass" England
Roche & Breugnot "Sauvage Central" France
Dermot Byrne & Floriane Blancke "Dermot Byrne & Floriane Blancke" Ireland
Andrew MacNamara | Orla Harrington | Jim Higgins "Flagstone Memories" Ireland
Kyle Alden "Songs from Yeats' Bee-loud Glade" USA
The Raineys "The Raineys" Ireland
We Banjo Three "Roots of the Banjo Tree" Ireland
Alalé "Breakfast in Mayo" Ireland
Sylvain Barou "Sylvain Barou" France
Dan Gurney "Dan Gurney" Ireland
Dylan Foley "Hup!" USA
Colm Gannon "The Rights of Man" USA
Tri Yann "Le concert des 40 ans" France
Sonerien Du "Seizh !!" France
Skrömta "Swedish Handicraft" Sweden
Duncan Chisholm "Affric" Scotland
Calum Stewart & Lauren MacColl "Wooden Flute & Fiddle" Scotland
Maeve MacKinnon "Once Upon an Olive Branch" Scotland
Silly Wizard "Live Again" Scotland
Allow Céilí Band "Rince Go Maidin" Ireland
Caitlín "Caitlín" Ireland
Sandén-Nygårds-Carr "Tänk om - Imagine if" Sweden
Ahlberg, Ek & Roswall "Vintern" Sweden
Broom Bezzums "Winterman" England
Lou Seriol "Maquina Enfernala" Italy
Réalta "Open The Door For Three" Ireland
Stevie Dunne "Banjo" Ireland
Flynn Cohen "Dead String Rhythm" USA
Flynn Cohen "Fierce Modal" USA
Blackmore’s Night "A Knight in York" USA
Kieran Wade "Out on the Back Roads" Ireland
Guitar Mikey and the Real Thing "Out of the Box" USA
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman "Hidden People" Britain
Grady Champion "Shanachie Days" USA
The Mad Maggies "Shake Those Bones" USA
Pat Green "Songs We Wish We’d Written II" USA
Mietek Szczesniak "Signs (Znaki)" Poland
The Phil Langran Band "Juke Box Love Songs, Leaving Blues, Border ..." Britain
Katrin Navessi "17 Shades of Blue" Austria
CS Nielsen "Man of the Fall" Denmark
Brooke Miller "Familiar" Canada
Katrin "Frail to Fearless" USA
Mark Wonder "Working Wonders" England
The Kenn Morr Band "Worth Imagining" USA
Kate Campbell "1000 Pound Machine" USA
Grace Griffith "Sailing" USA
Tom Kell "This Desert City" USA
Willie McBlind "Live Long Day" USA
Tim “Too Slim” Langford "Broken Halo" USA
Punch Brothers "Who’s Feeling Young Now?" USA
Rupert Stroud "Chasing the Night" Britain
Gasmac Gilmore "Dead Donkey" Austria
Mike Tyler "Erection" USA
Janne Westerlund "Oran" Finland
Ben Glover "Do We Burn the Boats?" Britain
Jerry Douglas "Traveler" USA
Raymond Gonzalez "Open Tuning" USA
Novi Sad "16 Songs, 22 Years" Austria
Ian Hunter & the Rant Band "When I’m President" England
Norman "Hay. Hay. Make a Wish and Turn Away" USA
Arthur Alligood "One Silver Needle" USA
Tony O’Leary "The Mysteries of Life" Canada
Steve Mednick "Two Days after Yesterday" USA
Dia del Marcado "Seven Years of Dirt" Netherlands
Scott Cook "Moonlit Rambles" Canada
Dave Stewart "The Ringmaster General" England
Stan Rogers "Turnaround" Canada
Christina Martin "Sleeping with a Stranger" Canada
Adam James Sorensen "Midwest" USA
Synje Norland "To the Other Side" Germany
Schagai "Schagai" Germany
Mick Flannery "Red to Blue" Ireland
Ian Anderson "TAAB2" England
Duncan McCrone "Colourblind" Scotland
Derek Warfield “Washington’s Irish" Ireland
Zorita "Amor y Muerte" Netherlands
Tim Grimm "Thank You Tom Paxton" USA
Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar "The Queen’s Lover" Britain
Aimee Mann "Charmer" USA
De Press "Koledy" Poland
The Lumineers "The Lumineers" USA
Andrew Peterson "Light for the Lost Boy" USA
Ciro Hurtado "Los Angeles Blues" Peru
Terakaft "Kel Tamasheq" Mali
The Young’uns "When our Grandfathers said No" Britain
Russ Seeger "Live in Peace" USA
Tirill "Nine and Fifty Swans" Norway
The Emperors of Wyoming "The Emperors of Wyoming" USA
Eamon Friel "The Streets Forget" Ireland
Kyle Fosburgh "The Dreamer’s Eye" USA
The Ready Stance "Damndest" USA
Saor Patrol "Two Headed Dog – Duncarron Electric" Scotland
Tina Dico "Where do you go to Disappear?" Denmark
Skip & Die "Riots in the Jungle" Netherlands
Don Stiffe "Life’s Journey" Ireland
Firewater "International Orange!" USA
Brigitte "Et vous, tu M’Aimes?" France
Ron LaSalle "When Hellhounds meet Angels and other Sordid Love Stories" USA
La Blanche Alchimie "Galactic Boredom" Italy
Daisy Chapman "Shameless Winter" England
Patrick Crowson “A Mile Past the Dead End” USA
Bellowhead "Broadside" England
The Way Home "On so Thin a Line" USA
Justyn and the Babys "Big Really" USA
Dwight Smith "Lateral Drifts" USA
Peter Fahey "Under the Sun" USA
Mary Gauthier "Live at Blue Rock" USA
The Black Lillies "100 Miles of Wreckage" USA
Penny Nichols "Colors of the Sun – The Early Songs of Jackson Browne" USA
Pat & Ricky Kelleher "All Mixed Up" Ireland
Gilmore & Roberts "The Innocent Left" Britain
Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King "Unplugged" USA
Lauren McCormick "On Bluestockings" Britain
Davey O. "Testing for Rust" USA
Lisa LeBlanc "Lisa LeBlanc" Canada
The Bluesmasters "Volume Two" USA
Mike Donaghy "I Wish You Well" Ireland
Volkwin Müller & Friends "Strawberry Songs" Germany
The Mystix "Mighty Tone" USA
Jamaram "La Famille" Germany
Svavar Knutur "Oldusloo" Iceland
Robert Morgan Fisher "Notes for a Novel" USA
Tom House "Winding Down the Road" USA
Marci Geller "Open Book" USA
Robert Hill "What are We Waiting for" USA
Craig Herbertson "Communication Breakdown" Scotland
Geoff Bartley "Mercy for the Dispossessed" USA
Skerryvore "World of Chances" Scotland
Simone Felice "Simone Felice" USA
Ben Bedford "What We Lost" USA
Oscar and the Wolf "Summer Skin" Belgium
Buskin & Batteau "Love Remembered Love Forgot" USA
Sorry Gilberto "Construction Work & Stormy Weather" Germany
Buford Pope "Matching Numbers" Sweden
Delen "Bonanova" Spain
Sean O’Brien "Future Harvest" USA
Luke Mitchem "Winter Kissing on the Spring" USA
Trixie Whitley "Fourth Corner" USA
Wes Tucker & the Skillets "Afterlens" USA
Ripoff Raskovnikov "Lenin Street" Austria
DC Cardwell "Some Hope" Australia
Jason Plumb and the Willing "All is More than Both" Canada
Hion Martell "Ultimate High" Sweden
Annbjørg Lien "Khoom Loy" Norway
Mick Conneely & David Munnelly "'Tis What It Is" Ireland
Goitse "Transformed" Ireland
Nuala Kennedy "Noble Stranger" Ireland
Quempallou "Once Anos Mallando" Spain
Michelle Mulcahy "Suaimhneas" Ireland
Bougnat Sound "Bon Esprit!" France
Joanny Niolou & Lucien Pillot "Face à Phasmes" France
Various Artists "Fonn Ratharsair - Sounds of Raasay" Scotland
Belzébuth "Suite 8" Canada
Session A9 "Session A9" Scotland
Emma Sweeney "Pangea" England
Various Artists "Doutor Apertas: Tributo a Magín Blanco" Spain
Yesca "Triste Quedaba: Canciones del Norte de Burgos (Las Merindades)" Spain
Banda Crebinsky "Jet Lag" Spain
Llares Folk "De Vetonia a Lusitania" Spain
Menaya Folk "Eclipse" Spain
Son del Cordel "Cantos Rodados: Musica Tradicional Leonesa" Spain
Alvariza "Once Badaladas" Spain
Daniel Minimalia "Cuentos Sonoros" Spain
Samplers, EP's, Demo CD's, Downloads, ...: Act of Congress, Alessandro Benvenuti, Branches, James Cramer, Bill Evans, Evarusnik, Coty Hogue, Seth Lakeman, Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac, Fiona J Mackenzie Chance McCoy, Morfe, Les Ogres de Barback, Kelly Joe Phelps, David Rovics, Urusen, Michael Ward, Various Artists "Antologie moravské lidové hudby CD 5 - Čas adventu a Vánoc", "Gaelic Ireland", "Putumayo Presents Bluegrass", "The Rough Guide to the Music of Hungary", "The Rough Guide to the Music of Scandinavia" Various

  Deutsche Rezensionen

Fiona J Mackenzie "Archipelago" Scotland
Mick Conneely & David Munnelly "'Tis What It Is" Ireland
Session A9 "Session A9" Scotland
Michelle Mulcahy "Suaimhneas" Ireland
Margie Butler, Aryeh Frankfurter, Harpers Hall "Celtic Harp" USA
Zirp "Drehvolution" Germany
Stan Rogers "Between the Breaks... Live!" Canada
Wenzel & Band "Woody 100" Germany
Dazkarieh "Eterno Retorno" Portugal
The Old Dance School "Chasing the Light" England
Belzébuth "Suite 8" Canada
A Glezele Vayn "Roznsharf" Germany
The Fretless "Waterbound" Canada
Dave Goodman & Steve Baker "The Wine Dark Sea" Canada / Britain
Eva Cassidy "The Best of Eva Cassidy" USA
Various Artists "No pasaran! Scots in the Spanish Civil War" Scotland
One Eyed Mule "When Tomorrow Comes" Denmark
Brigitte "Et vous, tu M’Aimes?" France
Karine Polwart "Traces" Scotland
Alex Cuba "static in the system" Cuba
Carokistekontrabass "In der Nähe der Zufriedenheit" Germany
Kari Bremnes "Og Så Kom Resten Av Livet" Norway
O'Hooley & Tidow "The Fragile" England
Saimaa "Juuret" Germany
Em Huisken "jank frison" Germany
Árstíðir "Árstíðir" Iceland
Rainald Grebe "Das Rainald Grebe Konzert" Germany
BerlinskiBeat "Gassenhauer" Germany
Bargel & Heuser "Men in Blues" Germany
Glenn Sharp & Paul Cheneour "Arabian Landscapes Vol.I" England
La Brass Banda "LIVE" Germany
Pat & Ricky Kelleher "All mixed up" Ireland
BORN 53 "Thieving in the Alley - Songs of Bob Dylan" Sweden
Jörg KO Kokott "Zunderholz & Funken" Germany
Louise Jordan "Florilegium" England
Richie Lawrence "Water" USA
Lydie Auvray "3Couleurs" France
Micha Schlüter ".108" Germany
Reno Rebscher "Auf stillen Pfaden" Germany
Schmidbauer Pollina Kälberer "Süden" Germany / Italy
Cathy Jordan "All the way home" Ireland
James Yorkston "I Was A Cat From A Book" England
Kyle Carey "Monongah" USA
Jamie Kent "Navigation" USA
Layori "Rebirth" Nigeria
Ana Alcaide "La Cantiga del Fuego" Spain
Romengo "Kétháné" Hungary
Burkina Electric "Paspanga" Burkina Faso / USA
Unterbiberger Hofmusik "Bavaturka" Germany
Various Artists "Fado" – World Heritage" Portugal
Luke Jackson "...And Then Some" Sweden/Canada
Habib Koité & Eric Bibb "Brothers in Bamako" Mali / USA
Karima Nayt "Quoi D'Autre?" Algeria
Locarno "Un a Mas Y Ya Nos Vamos" Canada
Charlie Morris "The Forest" USA
Claudia Aurora "Silêncio" Portugal
Odessa Express "Russanova" Germany
Luna Blanca "El Dorado" Germany
Carolina Chocolate Drops "Leaving Eden" USA
Carla Pires "Rota das Paixões" Portugal
I Muvrini "Imaginà" France
Knoxville Jazz Orchestra "Christmas Time is Here" USA
Bob Johnson "Graj, Panu, Graj" Poland
Golec uOrkiestra “Kolędy i Pastorałki" Poland
Mazowsze "Koledy Polskie" Poland
Stanislava Gabriela & Jan Preucil "Neseme Vam Tú Novinu" Czech Republic
Pust "Julero" Norway
Bluesouthern "The Churchsession" Germany
Czeremszyna "Usmiechnij sie" Poland
Radio Zastava "The Funambolik Experiment" Italy
Johannes Tonio Kreusch "Hommage à Heitor Villa-Lobos" Germany
Derby "Posters Fade" USA
Dona Rosa "Sou Luz" Portugal
Sharon Shannon & the RTE Orchestra "Flying Circus" Ireland
"Strom und Wasser featuring The Refugees" Germany
Le Vent du Nord "Tromper Le Temps" Canada
Silvério Pessoa & La Talvera "Forroccitània" Brazil / France
NDR Bigband "Süßer die Engel nie swingen" Germany
Ulrika Boden "Kôrksangern – Folk Hymns" Sweden
Ganes "Parores & Neores" Italy
Ganes "Parores & Neores" Italy
Lowlands and Friends "Better World Coming" Italy
Lowlands "Vol. 1" Italy
The Violet Tribe "Grand Hotel" Germany
Celtic Chakra "An tÓr Ceal" Germany
Various Artists "Antologie moravské lidové hudby, CD 1 - Horňácko" Czech Republic
Jäger & Hypius + Verstärkung "Zeitgeist" Germany
Siri Nilsen "Alle snakker sant" Norway
Mc Montos "Fancy a foursome?" Germany
Bohatsch & Skrepek "Alles in Butter" Austria
Beni Feldmann "Ich schreibe einfach einen Song!" Germany
ALLDRA "DOMM" Austria
Iona "Another Realm" Britain
Axel Nagel "Aussenansicht" Germany
The Dolmen "Whispering winds" England
Tanzwut "Morus et Diabolus" Germany
Tanzwut "Weiße Nächte" Germany
Ruth Angell & Sid Peacock "Love forgiven" Northern Ireland
Metusa "Piratenseele" Germany
Metusa "Piratenseele Rock" Germany
Cùl na Mara "As we went out" Germany
Tony O´Leary "The Mysteries of Life" Canada
Ann Doka "Never Ending Road" Germany
Cassie Taylor "Blue" USA
Ani DiFranco "Which side are you on?" USA
Jude Davison "Head Bone Gumbo" Canada
Solly "Oak Tree Session" Germany
Mirja u Minnig "Glücksträffer" Switzerland
Susan Cattaneo "Little big sky" USA
Doppelbock "Wyt drüberuus" Switzerland
Loretta Hagen "Mud and Stone" USA
Dean Owens "New York Hummingbird" Scotland
Fabula "Der alte Pfad" Germany
IRXN "Ewig uns" Germany
Tweed Funk "Love is" USA
William Wetsox Trio "Da Fisch springt aus'm Wasser" Germany
The Full Moon Orchestra "This is our music" Belgium
Pat Fritz "Life is Good" Germany
The Mannish Boys "Double Dynamite" USA
Heidenspass "Bluomenrot" Germany
The Twangtown Paramours "The Promise of Friday Night" USA
Skerryvore "World of Chances" Scotland
Various Artists "Stimmen Bayerns - Der Rausch" Germany
Acoustic Revolution "Haunted by Numbers" Germany
Federspiel "Unerhört BUMM!" Austria
Gwenael Kerleo "QUAI N° 7" France
Volksmetal "Volksmetal" Germany
Feuerschwanz "Walhalligalli" Germany
The Kennedys "Closer than you know" USA
Marie & the RedCat "Home" Germany
Celtica "Oceans of Fire" Austria
Musica Vulgaris "Maxima Preconia" Germany
Trio Interkontinental "Silk Road Suite" Switzerland
Virelai "havmandens kys" Denmark
Saor Patrol "Duncarron" Scotland
Flynn Cohen "Mellow Yell" USA
John Moloney "Grace" Ireland
The Feekers "Tarbolten" Ireland
Murat Coskun "Frames & Drums" Turkey
The Coal Porters "Find the one" USA
Zwoastoa "Scheiss da nix" Germany
The Mad Maggies "Skull & Magpies" USA
Weißwurscht is "Live in Rio" Germany
Tir Nan Og "Bitter Brew" Germany
Majorstuen "Live in Concert" Norway
The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc "The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc" Scotland / Sweden / Norway
Oh My Darling "Sweet Nostalgia" Canada
Sampler, EPs, Demo-CDs, Downloads, ...: A Life A Song A Cigarette, The Be Good Tanyas, Antje Duvekot, Earth Loop, Rory Ellis, Farewell Drifters, Mick Fitzgerald, Abagail Grey, Eilidh Hadden, Robb Johnson, Martyn Joseph, Katie McMahon, Langers Ball, Melinda Ortner, Mikael Persson, Georg Schroeter & Marc Breitfelder, Angel Snow, Jeff Warner, Konstantin Wecker, Various Artists "Fonn Ratharsair - Sounds of Raasay", "God Jul - A Scandinavian Christmas", "Isn’t This World Enough: A Nettwerk Christmas", "Lunagrad - The Sound of Russia Today", "The Rough Guide to Native America" Various


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