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2 Fotefar & Håvard Lund Fest (Kirkelig Kul- 2 Manfred Leuchter & Ian Melrose Vis-À-
turverksted FXCD346) Very fine new Norwe- Vis (Acoustic Music 319.1401.2) Felicitous pair-
gian chamber-folk quartet – the personable, ing of German piano-accordeonist and Scots
expressive vocals of Lena Jinnegren, Håvard finger-style guitarist. Nifty, mutually respon-
Lund’s rich bass clarinet, Bendik Lund Haanshus sive workouts on shapely material mostly their
on guitar and baritone guitar and the always own, inspired by their experiences with tradi-
excellent Ragnhild Furebotten on fiddle and tions and people across Europe and the Orient,
octave fiddle – with elegant, catchy and meaty including a time-signature-shifting reel dedi-
original/ trad Norwegian and occasionally cated to Leuchter’s Moroccan dromedary
Swedish songs and instrumentals.
www.kkv.no Alphonse. Via Discovery in the UK.
2 Omar Kent Dykes Big Town Playboy 2 Kiss The Mistress About Time (KTM
(Ruf Records RUF 1142) 12 x 12 bar blues. KTMCD 001) Intriguing trio with unusual
Growling guitar man Omar keeps it plain and instrumental combination (cello/ fiddle, chro-
simple on a bunch of covers that take in matic button accordeon/ melodeon, bodhrán/
songs by Eddie Taylor, Jimmy Reed and Slim cajon). The dynamic musicianship of Ginny
Harpo. Such guests as Jimmie Vaughan, Lou Davis, John Ramirez and Roy Jones embodies
Ann Barton, Lazy Lester and James Cotton a restless, unbridled energy that propels
add tone and texture without cluttering the them skilfully through tunes with inventive
music. Nice!
www.rufrecords.de time-signatures and vocal tracks that
1 The Occasionals The Full Set – Of Basic
embrace retold legends and Gaelic waulking
Scottish Ceilidh Dances (Greentrax
songs.
www.kissthemistress.co.uk
DVTRAX2021) A complete guide to ceilidh- 1 Storis & Limpan Band Storis & Limpan
The albums – good (2), adequate (1) and dancing. The 12 main dance styles are per- Band (Dimma DIS 002) Nyckelharpa champion
bad (@) – which didn’t get the full-length formed on CD and demonstrated on the excel- Magnus Holmström, with Tomas Lindberg
treatment, contributed individually by a lent accompanying DVD. Instruction booklet mostly on an instrument that, via Väsen’s
selection of our various reviewers cowering also included. The unvarying musical texture of Roger Tallroth, is becoming Swedish tradition-
under the cloak of collective anonymity. accordeon, fiddle, banjo/ mandolin and drums al, the Canadian-made Seagull 12-string gui-
2 Dub Colossus Return To Addis (Real
makes for bland listening.
www.greentrax.com tar, used like a massive-sounding octave man-
World RWEP13) Enjoyable addendum to DC’s @ Kalbakken Then I Saw Summer And
dola. Tradition rolls healthily onward in a set
excellent A Town Called Addis album. A 4-track Sun On The Earth (Little Red Rabbit LRR
of their own hefty tunes including polskas,
EP including a pair of remixes and a couple of 011) Of the many CDs of traditional music
waltzes and a schottis.
www.dimmaswe.com
dubs. The highlight is Sidestepper’s slinky take made in Norway and Sweden virtually none is 2 Goran Bregovic Welcome To Goran
on Black Rose.
www.realworldrecords.com even slightly less than maximally skilful. But Bregovic (Wrasse WRASS 241) Handy 20-
@ Festival Come, Arrow, Come (Language
the out of tune singing and incompetent track intro to the Bosnian musician and com-
Of Stone 005) The massed voices, plinky gui-
playing of this wannabe-Scandinavian poser. All the Goran you’ll ever need plus
tars, kalimbas and zither of sisters Alexis &
attempt by an English brother and sister of more. Does what it sets out to.
Lindsay Powell witter away in an echoing
part-Norwegian descent is excruciatingly,
www.wrasserecords.com
barn. Several people called Orrall assist them
insultingly, pretentiously, anger-inducingly
@ Baron Ya Buk-Lu Afrobeatziako (Ngomo
in their struggles to locate a tune. Luckily it’s
awful.
www.myspace.com/kalbakken
Line Productions NLP1007) Formidable heavy
all over quite soon.
www.funwithfestival.com
1 Dry Branch Fire Squad Echoes Of The beat, big dance machine from Equatorial
1 Jesse Winchester Love Filling Station
Mountains (Rounder11661-0574-2) Compe- Guinea. Unfaltering, relentless. That bass! Oof!
(Appleseed APRCD 1116) Three covers, nine
tent but predictable bluegrass outfit. One Just pray your asbo neighbours never get their
graceful originals from the Memphis-bred
song which beggars belief is (You Got To Pray hands on a copy.
www.baronyabuklu.es.kz
melodist with Russ Barenberg on mandolin
To The Lord) When You See Those Flying
2 Flavio Sala Mi Alma Llanera (Felmay
and Andy Leftwich on fiddle. Not exactly high
Saucers. But of course I will.
www.rounder.com
fy3015) Venezuelan music of all sorts, from
octane, but never running on empty.
1 Nordic Metropol (KMH/ Academus vals criollo to joropo, originally written for
www.appleseedmusic.com
KMHCD19) Since its near-extinction by the everything from the bandolin to the cuatro,
2 The Mighty Quinns Thicker Than Water
mid-20th century, nyckelharpa might now be here transcribed and played with verve, fire
(Hebe Music CD 005) TMQ teams father
the world’s most rapidly popularising and technical mastery by young Italian classi-
(revivalist Dan) with son (Matt) on an appeal-
stringed instrument. Here it’s played by Eric cal guitarist Sala. It’s a wonderful introduc-
ingly unpretentious collection of songs plus
Rydvall with Magnus Zetterlund’s mandolin tion to the music of the country, and a damn
three instrumental sets. It’s mostly Dan who
and Anders Löfberg’s cello in often non-trad- fine guitar album to boot. Via Egea UK.
sings, but when Matt takes over he’s clearly a
style original tunes, with occasional vocals
1 Gunnel Mauritzson Band Det Som Sker
including a fine declamatory one from Sene-
chip off the old block. Accompaniments
(Sandkvie SRCD 13) Mauritzson with open-
gal’s Mamadou Sene.
www.academus.se
(melodeon and fiddle, occasional mando or
eared jazz-rooted trio of saxist Jonas Knutsson,
banjo) are vigorous and close-knit. Unflashy
2 Various Kankani Songs – Music From drummer/ pianist Christian Jormin and bassist/
but most entertaining.
www.danquinn.co.uk
Goa – Made In Bombay (Trikont US-0395) accordeonist Stefan Wingfors, plus Johan
1
An entertaining compilation of Indian pop Hedin’s nyckelharpa and Erik Steen’s Spanish
CaravanSarail Walking To Kashi
songs from the ‘50s and ‘70s. Latin influences guitar. In sparse, airy treatments of Swedish
(Saphrane S62603) Jazz meets Indian, African
feature surprisingly often and it’s all pleasing- trad songs and her own settings of lyrics, her
and Celtic sounds from this French combo.
ly cheesy.
www.trikont.com, distributed in singing has a light, restrained if perhaps under-
Pleasant and well performed, but hardly
the UK by Klang. commanding calm.
www.sandkviestudio.se
inspirational. www.caravansarail.com; dis-
tributed in the UK by Proper.
2
Dub Colossus
Olov Johansson & Catriona McKay
Foogy (Olov Johansson Musik OJM 009)
Swedish nyckelharpa master Johansson of
Väsen and brilliant Scottish harpist McKay go
empathically duo in a sparkling set of intricate-
ly-meshing tunes from both traditions and
their own composition. At its most memorable
when the restlessness slows to an autumnal set-
ting of the old Gaelic harp tune The Harper’s
Dismissal. www.olovjohansson.se; via Proper.
1 Anne Gomez Wan Mair Mile (own label
no cat. no.) Anne runs a folk club and sings at
weddings and funerals (she does a pretty
good Ave Maria). Her debut album of tradi-
tional songs (mostly Scottish) and own com-
positions is accompanied on guitars, man-
dolin, mandola, cittern, bandolin, flute and
Photo: Philip Ryalls
pipes.
www.showcaseyourmusic.com/gomeza
1 Hot Club Of Cowtown Wishful Think-
ing (Proper CD047) Always great fun and
good musicianship, but this time struggling
for songs. Original material is a little weak
and there is too much of it on this CD.
www.properuk.com
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