FolkWorld #77 03/2022



Folk, World & Roots Music 2021

Terri Hendrix ZiRP Mulo Francel Jo Carley & The Old Dry Skulls

Radio Skala, www.radio-skala.eu
+++ Wör + Herbert Pixner + Northern Light + El Pony Pisador + Folkländer + Les Yeux d'la Tête + Benedicte Maurseth + Salt House + Les Tireux d'Roches + Daniel Kahn + Old Blind Dogs + Eliza Gilkyson + Malcolm MacWatt + Cara + Mala Oreen + Billy Bragg + Raske Drenge + Staritsa + Fanfare Ciocarlia + Fjarill + Luis Peixoto + Trolska Polska + Zawierucha + Marcela + Dobranotch + Le Vent du Nord + Bube Dame König + Cara Dillon + Wouter en De Draak + Basco + Grosse Isle + Halva + ZiRP + Groupa + Kate Rusby + Monsieur Doumani + AySay + Quadro Nuevo + Naragonia + Manran + Joe Troop + Banda Comunale + Sofia Labropoulou + Paul Kaplan + Zydeco Playboys + Abdelli + Teyr + Popa Chubby + David Rovics + Hotel California + Ronja Maltzahn + Emma Swift + Ben de la Cour + Altin Gün + Rachel Walker + Frankie Armstrong + Desert Hollow + Camilla Barbarito + Andrew Marlin + Meadow Creek + Joe Lewis Band + Sierra Hull + Noirin Lynch + Harmony Glen + Fintan Vallely + Molden Resetarits Soyka Wirth + Steve Tallis + Vollbard + Donna Herula + Varo + The Fire + Kaminer & Die Antikörpers + Monika Stadler & Harald Peterstorfer + Tashaki Miyaki + Rachelle Garniez + Alasdair Roberts og Völvur + Tony Trischka + Dota + Andrew D. Huber + Cat Lee King + David Massey + Brad Reid + Afton Wolfe + Michael Johnathon + Aaron Nathans & Michael G Ronstadt + Eddie Seville + Piirainen Blom Company + Alison Kinnaird + Esbe + Catherine Britt + Deborah Henriksson + Chris Pierce + Charlie Piggott & Rowan Piggot + Sigrid Moldestad + Ale Möller + Albaluna + Brandi Vezina + Hilary Scott + Staran + Suistamon Sähkö + The Secret Sisters + Indra Bahia + Tarab Trio + Bapi Das Baul + The Porkroll Project + Luca Kiella + Lalala Napoli + Rodd Bland + Barbora Xu + Lillebjorn Nilsen & Andy Irvine + My Sweetest Punch + Karen Matheson + JEMM Music Project + Cristina Branco + goraSon + Corde Oblique + Beth Wimmer + Becky Buller + Brigitte DeMeyer + Katie McNally Trio + Scythian + Kat Danser + Babylon Orchestra + Silja + Adabei + La Bricole + Sharon Shannon + Vindotale + Sangre de Muerdago + Fred Ape + Johnny & the Yooahoos + King Of The World + Multumult + Roving Crows + John Wort Hannam + Lou-Duo + Kathy Murray & The Kilowatts + Mercedes Nicole + Branko Galoić + Carolyn Wonderland + Richard Koechli + Randi Tytingvag Trio + DLÙ + Trudy Lynn + Nanna Barslev + Tor + Regina Bonelli + La Raymonde + Das Ungemach + Bonbon Vodou + Sebastian Dymala + Alan Clark + Nicolas Boulerice + Anna Grindle + Daniel Wahren & Marta Hornik + Walking Apollo + Alice DiMicele + Simsalabim + Blitz Union + Zydeco Playboys + Michael Lane + Brooksie Wells + Foreign Landers + Emer Dunne + Becky Dellow + Rupert Wates + Ellen Gibling + Imarhan + Vigüela + Marcela Arroyo + Fairytale + Angela Easley + Emma Gale + Omar Pene + Ellen Gibling + Şenel Karatepe + Jason Baker + Ben Reel + Jack Rutter + Roger Matura + Pete Alderton + Brandi Vezina + The Old No. 5s + Duo Beaudry-Prudhomme + West of Eden + Latin Quarter + Joe Danks & Seaspeak + Rachel Magoola + Rusty Ends Blues Band + Dem Trio + Adam Schultz + Diane Durrett & Soul Suga + Rainald Grebe + Kuželovské zpěvulky + Olaf Sickmann + Terri Hendrix + Puuluup + Eleanor McEvoy + Jared Rabin + Geronimo + Baptiste Loosfelt + Guy Buttery, Mohd. Amjad Khan & Mudassir Khan + Freedom To Roam + Oysterband + Tony Holiday + Sarah Lesch + Kasai Allstars + David Crosby + Ben Chasny + Elly Wininger + Young female voices from Palestine + Namgar + Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps + Ambäck + Bad Temper Joe + Jeanette Hubert + Annabelle Chvostek + Afro Celt Sound System + Mick Kolassa + Dowally + Graham Lindsey + Hazar + Alma + Antoine Villoutreix + Laura Flanagan + Omar Sosa + Ledfoot + KB Bayley + Jimmy Reiter + Zoom With Shawn Kellerman + Peter Veteska & Blues Train + Chris Flegg + Manfred Hausin: Dass wir so lang leben dürfen +++
Radio Skala, www.radio-skala.eu

Brian Finnegan Honey and the Bear Old Blind Dogs Gnoss Manran

The Editors' Best Loved Albums

1. Brian Finnegan "Hunger of the Skin"
If there is anything good that has come out of the lockdown, this impressive album must be high up the list!

Ireland
2. Honey and the Bear "Journey through the Roke"
The best of contemporary folk songwriting!

England
3. Old Blind Dogs "Knucklehead Circus"
If you wanted to put Scotland in a bottle, it probably would sound like that.

Scotland
Gnoss "The light of the moon" Scotland
Hartwin Dhoore Trio "Valge Valgus" Belgium / Estonia
Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan "still as your sleeping" Scotland
Manran "Urar" Scotland
Stundom "må jeg holde din hånd" Denmark
Whyte "Maim" Scotland
Wör "About Towers" Belgium

Walkin' Tom's Best Loved Albums

Burbridge Booth "Icons" England
Cara "Grounded" Germany / Scotland
El Pony Pisador "It's Never Too Late for Sea Shanties" Spain
Mia Guldhammer & Morten Alfred Høirup "Tral, Tråd & Traditioner" Denmark
Hoven Droven "Trad" Sweden
La Kejoca "Libertad" Germany
Eleanor McEvoy "Gimme Some Wine" Ireland
Northern Light "Stolen Berries" Germany
Jared Rabin "Cold Rain and Snow" USA
Silverfuchs "Teifli eini..." Austria

Alex Monaghan's Best Loved Albums

Niamh Ní Charra "Donnelly’s Arm" Ireland
Mats Edén "Alvaleken" Sweden
Anna Ekborg "Solo" Sweden
Brian Finnegan "Hunger of the Skin" Ireland
Granny's Attic "The Brickfields" England
Heisk "Heisk" Scotland
Irish Millie "Thirteen" Canada
Katie McNally Trio "Now More Than Ever" USA
Susana Seivane "Dende o Meu Balcón" Spain
Various Artists "Rogha Raelach 1" Ireland

Gabriele Haefs' Best Loved Albums

Guido Belcanto "In de kronkels van mijn geest" Belgium
Sarah Ghriallais "Idir dhá Sháile 2" Ireland
La Kejoca "Libertad" Germany
Eleanor McEvoy "Gimme Some Wine" Ireland
Niamh Ní Charra "Donnelly’s Arm" Ireland
Linde Nijland "Ten Years" Netherlands
Andy Irvine & Lillebjørn Nilsen "Live in Telemark" Ireland / Norway
Florian Schneider "Hals an Hals und Bein an Bein" Switzerland
Seinerzeit "Erste Runde" Germany
Teyr "Estren" Britain

Karsten Rube's Best Loved Albums

Nicola Conte "People Need People" Italy
Dota "Wir rufen Dich, Galaktika" Germany
Hazar "Reincarnated" Turkey
Jeanette Hubert "Home" Germany
Ronja Maltzahn "Worldpop" Germany
Karen Matheson "Still Time" Scotland
Andrea Motis & WDR Big Band "Colors and Shadows" Spain
Sting "The Bridge" England
Antoine Villoutreix "Promenade" France
Beth Wimmer "Chemical Reaction" USA

Recollections & Rereleases

Lillebjørn Nilsen, Andy Irvine "Live in Telemark" Ireland / Norway
Esma Redžepova and Nune Brothers "MY LAST SONG: A Loving Tribute to ..." Macedonia
John Renbourn Group "A Maid In Bremen (live at Roemer, Bremen Feb. 14th 1978)" England
Various Artists "Great Tunes from the World Music Charts Europe" Misc
"Hamish Henderson Tribute Vol. 2 - Ballad Of The Banffies" Scotland
Various Artists "Hanin: Field Recordings In Syria 2008​/​2009" Syria
Various Artists "Home Is Where The Art Is - 15 Years of Reveal Records 2006-2021" Britain
Various Artists "Høyre du, mann! Langeleikopptak 1955-1983" Norway
Various Artists "Lyden av Vestfold" Norway
Various Artists "Sense of the Place" Britain

Tales & Tunes

Hanno Botsch "Peter Rohland: Biographie • Erinnerungen, Tagebücher, Reflexionen" Germany
Mary Gauthier "Saved By A Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting" USA
Bernhard Hanneken "Deutschfolk" Germany
Tim Moon "on track... The Incredible String Band: every album, every song" England
Balthasar Streiff "Hornviecher: Einblick in eine Sammlung von Hörnern, deren Geschichte und Klänge" Switzerland

Look & Listen

Ed Blunt - The Dome of St Paul's England
Brian Finnegan - Two Trees/Tony Ireland
Rhiannon Giddens (with Francesco Turrisi) - O Death USA
Julian James and the Moonshine State - Devil Town USA
Korrontzi - Lurra Spain
Massilia Sound System - Sale Caractère France
Doug Schmude - Old Crow USA
Stellmäcke - In Bethlehems Stall Germany
Sunny War - Lucid Lucy USA
Tony Joe White - Boot Money USA

Andy Irvine Hanin Hamish Henderson Sense of the Place Lyden av Vestfold
Northern Light
WÖR
Nick Burbridge
Cara
El Pony Pisador
Mia Guldhammer & Morten Alfred Høirup
Jared Rabin
Heisk
Niamh Ni Charra
La Kejoca
Eleanor McEvoy
Ronja Maltzahn
Antoine Villoutreix
Peter Rohland
Deutschfolk


Songlines Music Awards

Best Artist Award Winner: Liraz
Best Group: Ayom
Americas: Jake Blount "Spider Tales"
Europe: Damir Imamović "Singer of Tales"
Fusion: Bab L’ Bluz "Nayda!"

Transglobal World Music Chart

BEST ALBUM: Ballaké Sissoko "Djourou"
BEST OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: Ballaké Sissoko "Djourou"
BEST OF NORTH AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST: Antonis Antoniou "Kkismettin"
BEST OF EUROPE: Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa / Warsaw Village Band "Uwodzenie / Waterduction"
BEST OF NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICA: Omar Sosa "An East African Journey"
Top 100 Albums: 1. Ballaké Sissoko "Djourou" | ... Antonis Antoniou "Kkismettin" | Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa / Warsaw Village Band "Uwodzenie / Waterduction" | Omar Sosa "An East African Journey" | Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (CGS) "Meridiana" | Mahsa Vahdat "Enlighten the Night" | Ammar 808 "Global Control" | The Rheingans Sisters "Receiver" | Bab L’ Bluz "Nayda!" | Oumou Sangaré "Acoustic" | "Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger" | Liraz "Zan" | A.G.A. Trio "Meeting" | Luís Peixoto "Geodesia" | Urban Village "Udondolo" | Stella Chiweshe "Ambuya!" | "Henna: Young Female Voices from Palestine" | Altın Gün "Yol" | Trio Tekke "Strovilos" | Sara Vidal "Matriz" | Mehmet Polat "The Promise" | Sofia Labropoulou "Sisyphus" | Sakili "Creole Sounds from the Indian Ocean" | Sväng "In Trad We Trust" | Arsen Petrosyan "Hokin Janapar: Music Performed on Armenian Duduk" | Dagadana "Tobie" | Sofía Rei "Umbral" | Las Lloronas "Soaked" | Star Feminine Band "Star Feminine Band" | Kady Diarra "Burkina Hakili" | Tao Ravao & Vincent Bucher "Piment Bleu" | BraAgas "Bestiále" | Transglobal Underground "A Gathering of Strangers 2021" | La Banda Morisca "Gitana Mora" | Zedashe "Silver Sanctuary" | Eliseo Parra "Cantar y Batir" | Modeste Hugues & Kilema "Ala Maintso / Green World: Songs from Madagascar" | Namgar "Nayan Navaa" | Esma Redžepova and Nune Brothers "My Last Song: A Tribute to Macedonia’s Gypsy Queen" | David Krakauer & Kathleen Tagg "Breath & Hammer" | Gájanas "Čihkkojuvvon" | Songhoy Blues "Optimisme" | Merema "Kezeren Koiht" | ...
TWMC Hall of Fame 2021 Inductees: Fatoumata Diawara | Janusz Prusinowski | Industry and Media Excellence: Womex | In Memoriam: Ravi Shankar | Alan Lomax | ...

World Music Charts Europe

1 Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (CGS) "Meridiana" | 2 Warsaw Village Band "Uwodzenie / Waterduction" | 3 Monsieur Doumani "Pissourin" || Antonis Antoniou "Kkismettin" | Liraz "Zan" | Sofia Labropoulou "Sisyphus" | Altın Gün "Yol" | Samba Touré "Binga" | Tara Fuki "Motyle" | MEDITERRANEO OSTINATO . Stefano Saletti & Banda Ikona | Fanfare Ciocărlia "It wasn't hard to love you" | Ballaké Sissoko "Djourou" | Las Lloronas "Soaked" | Yat-Kha "We will never die" | Stella Chiweshe "Ambuya!" | "Henna: Young Female Voices from Palestine" | Marjo Smolander "Cosmologies" | Nando Citarella & Tamburi del Vesuvio "Museca" | Omar Sosa "An East African Journey" | Abdelli "Songs of exile" | Saucejas "Daba" | Kady Diarra "Burkina Hakili" | Mónika Lakatos & The Gipsy Voices HANGSZÍN | Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita "Suba" | Celenka "Villoi Varsa" | Namgar "Nayan Navaa" | Star Feminine Band "Star Feminine Band" | Rafiki Jazz "NDUGGU" | Luís Peixoto "Geodesia" | Justin Adams & Mauro Durante "Still Moving" | Gájanas "Čihkkojuvvon" | Sofía Rei "Umbral" | Ayom "Ayom" Rão Kyao "Gandhi" | Esma Redžepova & Nune Brothers "My Last Song" | Khöömei Beat "Changys Baglaash" | Guy Buttery, Mohd. Amjan Khan, Mudassir Khan "One Morning in Gurgaon" | Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble "Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble" | Staritsa "Klyukva" | Iva Bittová "Pro Radost" | Bapi Das Baul "River of Happy Souls" | Sväng "In Trad We Trust" | "Celina da Piedade ao vivo Casinha" | Valkyrien Allstars "Slutte og byne" | Wör "About Towers" | Massilia Sound System "Sale Caractère" | Angelique Kidjo MOTHER NATURE | Barbora Xu "Olin Ennen" | Naragonia "The Guesthouse Sessions" | Misst "Misst.eu" | Pekko Käppi & KHHL "Aamunkoi" | "Great Tunes from the World Music Charts Europe" | Songhoy Blues "Optimisme" | Suistamon Sähkö "Varokaa! Henganvaara" | Urban Village "Udondolo" | Rachel Magoola "Resilience" | Arsen Petrosyan "Hokin Janapar" | Gaye Su Akyol "Isyan Manifestosu" | Esma's Band "Next Generation Gypsy Dance" | Spilar "Stormweere" | Kongero "Live In Longueuil" | Joseph Spence "Encore: Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar & Singing" | Brian Finnegan "Hunger of the Skin" Shoodja-Choodja "Shooldyrak" | The Rheingans Sisters "Receiver" | Kadialy Kouyate "AADO - Senegalese Kora" | A Moving Sound "Little Universe" | Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan "Still as your sleeping" | Vlastimil Bjaček "Ruky na dudách" | Staran "Staran" | AySay "Su Akar" | Lo'Jo "Transe de Papier" | Perttula "Pajavasara" | ...


Mundofonías Favorites of the Year: Various Artists "Hanin: Field Recordings In Syria 2008​/​2009" | Ballaké Sissoko "Djourou" | Anuang’a Fernando & Maasai Voices "Maasaai footsteps" | Abdelli "Songs of exile" | ...

Global Music Awards : Silver Medal - Outstanding Achievement: Halley DeVestern "Money Ain't Time" | Rodd Bland and the Members Only Band "Live on Beale Street: A Tribute to Bobby Blue Bland" | Tiffany Pollack & Co. "Bayou Liberty" | ... Bronze Medal Winners - Finalist : Mark Cameron "Back From The Edge" | Reverend Freakchild "Supramundane Blues" | Tomislav Goluban "Express Connection" | ...

The German Record Critics' Awards: La Kejoca "Libertad" | Susana Baca "Palabras Urgentes" | Barbara Thalheim " Novemberblues" | Robert Plant & Alison Krauss "Raise the Roof" | Eric Bibb "Dear America" | Pulcinella & Maria Mazzotta "Grifone" | Kudsi Erguner & Lâmekân Ensemble "Fragments Des Cérémonies Soufies" | Folkländer "So viele Wege Vol.1" | Florian Schneider "Hals an Hals & Bein an Bein: Schangsongs" | Tedeschi Trucks »Band« feat. Trey Anastasio "Layla Revisited. (Live at Lockn’)" | Tania Saleh "10 A.D" | Misagh Joolaee "Unknown Nearness" | Dota "Wir rufen Dich, Galaktika" Tworna "Tworna" | "Anfürsich es et zo leis & Anfürsich weed et widder laut" | "Piazzolla – The Years Of The Shark" | Urban Village "Udondolo" | "Excavated Shellac - An Alternate History of the World’s Music (1907-1967)" | Magdalena Ganter "Neo Noir" | Staritsa "Klyukva" | Jimmy Reiter "LIVE" | Ayom "Ayom" "Terra Incognita: TUVA" Max Prosa "Grüße aus der Flut" | Cinder Well "No summer" | Kai Strauss "In My Prime" | ...

Womex Award: Aynur | Global Music Match
Damir Imamovic
Antonis Antoniou
Rao Kyao
Namgar
Bapi Das Baul
Sväng
Urban Village
Abdelli


Liederbestenliste Album des Monats

Deutschmann, Moheit und Stadlober "Heym - Vom Aufstoßen der Fenster"
Attwenger "Drum"
Die Grenzgänger "Hölderlin"
Dota "Wir rufen Dich, Galaktika"
Fred Ape "Bedingungslos"

The Official Folk Albums Chart Top 40

Laura Marling "Song For Our Daughter" | Kate Rusby "Hand me down" | Bellowhead "Reassembled" | Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan "Still as your sleeping" | Peggy Seeger "First Farewell" | Spiers & Boden "Fallow Ground" | Sam Lee "Old Wow" | Seth Lakeman "A Pilgrim's Tale" | ...

Fatea Awards

Album Of The Year: Allison Russell "Outside Child"
Debut Album Of The Year: The Last Inklings "The Impossible Wild"
Innovative Projects Award: Freedom To Roam - Rhythms Of Migration
Fatea Lifetime Achievement Award: Shirley Collins

Scots Trad Music Awards

Gaelic Singer of the Year: Kim Carnie
Musician of the Year: Iona Fyfe
Up and Coming Artist of the Year: The Canny Band

RTE Radio 1 Folk Awards

Best Folk Group: Ye Vagabonds
Best Traditional Folk Track: I’m a Rover – Ye Vagabonds
Best Folk Album: Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & Ultan O'Brien "Solas an Lae - The Light of the Day"
Lifetime Achievement Award: Christy Moore
Hall of Fame Award: Sarah Makem

TG4 Gradam Ceoil Awards

Ceoltóir na Bliana / Musician of the Year: Angelina Carberry
Cumadóir na Bliana / Composer of the Year: Steve Cooney
Amhránaí na Bliana / Singer of the Year: Niall Hanna

Russian World Music Chart

Staritsa "Klyukva" | Vedan Kolod "Goridische" | Khöömei Beat "Changys Baglaash" | Namgar "Nayan Navaa" | Yat-Kha "We will never die" | Shoodja-Choodja "Shooldyrak" | ...
Heym
Attwenger
Spiers & Boden
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & Ultan O’Brien
Khöömei Beat


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