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12= Snakefarm My Halo At Half-Light (Fledg’ling)
Boubacar Traore Mali Denhou (Lusafrica)
14= Dub Colossus Addis Through The Looking Glass (Real World)
Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80 From Africa With Fury: Rise (Because)
Rapunzel & Sedayne Songs From The Barley Temple (Folk Police)
Martin Simpson Purpose + Grace (Topic)
18= Amira Amulette (World Village)
Andrew Cronshaw The Unbroken Surface Of Snow (Cloud Valley)
ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
1. June Tabor & Oysterband Ragged Kingdom (Topic)
2. Fatoumata Diawara Fatou (World Circuit)
3. Ry Cooder Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down (Nonesuch)
4. Juju (Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara) In Trance (Real World)
5. Gillian Welch The Harrow And The Harvest (Acony / Warner Bros)
6. Jackie Oates Saturnine (ECC) 7= Aurelio Laru Beya (Real World)
Mary Hampton Folly (Teaspoon)
Aziz Sahmaoui University Of Gnawa (General Pattern)
10=Tinariwen Tassili (V2/ Anti)
Abigail Washburn City Of Refuge (Rounder)
Naomi Bedford Tales From The Weeping Willow (Dusty Willow)
Runners up (alphabetically): Baloji Kin- shasa Surcusale (Crammed Discs); Bombi- no Agadez (Cumbancha); Eliza Carthy Neptune (Hem Hem); Cecil Sharp Project Cecil Sharp Project (Shrewsbury Folk Festi- val); Fanfare Ciocarlia vs Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra Balkan Brass Battle (Asphalt Tango); Bella Hardy Songs Lost And Stolen (Navigator); Sarah Jarosz Follow Me Down (Sugar Hill); Dawda Jobarteh Northern Light Gambian Night (Stern’s); Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell Kite (Rabble Rouser); Le Trio Joubran AsFar (World Village); Nidi d’Arac Taranta Container (Tarantulae); Iarla Ó Lionáird Foxlight (Real World); Lucas Santtana Sem Nostalgia (Mais Um Discos); Omar Souleyman Haflat Gharbia – The Western Concerts (Sublime Frequencies); Spiers & Boden The Works (Navigator); June Tabor Ashore (Topic); Steve Tilston The Reckoning (Hubris); The Unthanks Last (Rabble Rouser); Lucy Ward Adelphi Has To Fly (Navigator); Marry Waterson & Oliver Knight The Days That Shaped Me (One Little Indian).
T
o keep the main attention on new recordings but at the same time recognise the excellence of the many reissues, compila- tions and historic projects, we have a second, separate section for those. Technological advances and the break away from the now very boring standard jewel box – the hallmark of a lack of attention to packaging art detail these days – mean that some extraordinary, exhilarating and influential sets have been released in recent years, putting into the public domain recordings that were long lost in the archives, never releasable until digital technology allowed the quality to be brought up to scratch (or without scratch in some cases!), or increasingly from cultures whose music never found its way to west- ern ears at the time of original release.
And who would have imagined that three LPs by an American traditional singer who was hardly a major name in the 1960s and who had, seemingly, completely vanished from the consciousness of all but a few fans, could be combined as a CD set and capture so many people’s imagina- tion? But Paul Adams of Fellside had the faith and it has been handsomely repaid by Hedy West’s Ballads & Songs FromThe Appalachians walking away with the Reis- sues & Compilations gong by quite a wide margin. Read all about Hedy from page 28, and hear her on fRoots 38.
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