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The latest in our series of sought-after compilations, which you can download to enjoy on your computer or mp3 player or burn to CD –the download includes artwork for a slimline case and label.
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ere’s the latest in our long series of carefully crafted and sought-after compilations. They’re designed to let you hear the music – mostly on
small independent labels – that our writ- ers get enthusiastic about in the pages of fRoots. Buy the original CDs!
Just as you’d thought you wouldn’t mind if you never heard another Balkan brass band, along comes Canadian gypsy jazz guitarist Adrian Raso who has teamed up with Romania’s fabulous Fan- fare Ciocarlia to put a thoroughly twang- tastic and original spin on it all.
It has been fascinating to watch and listen to UK-based Israeli Ladino singer Mor Karbasi since she first appeared in our pages back in 2008. Working with partner Joe Taylor, each of her albums has been a leap forward, with her latest her most confident and impressive yet.
Every now and then an artist comes out of left field with an inspiring and origi- nal take on traditional songs that makes you hear them in a new way. And so it is with Kerry Andrew, aka You Are Wolf, with her forthcoming bird-themed album Hawk To The Hunting Gone.
Indian American artist Sheela Bringi has been exploring the connections between her ancestral and actual home- lands through her entire life. The talented singer and multi-instrumentalist’s debut album, Incantations was co-produced by trumpet maestro Clinton Patterson.
Kora player Jali Sherrifo Konteh, half brother of Dembo Konte and youngest son of the great Alhaji Bai Konte, teams up with balafon player Suntou Kouyate as
part of the Jamisa Jalis group, recorded live in Brikama, the Gambia and beautiful- ly encapsulating the local tradition.
‘Supergroup’ is too pompous a term to describe the organic delights of Lucy Farrell, Rachel Newton, Emily Portman, Alasdair Roberts, aka The Furrow Collec- tive. If they were the folk group at the end of the universe, you could happily implode afterwards.
Marit & Rona – Norwegian/Swedish Marit Fält on låtmandola and more, and Scotland’s Rona Wilkie on all sorts of vio- liny things – explore the similarities between the Scandinavian and Highland traditions and in the process create some- thing inspiringly new.
Irish veteran Andy Irvine recorded his latest album while wandering around the Australian outback (as Irish bouzouki players often do) in the company of a group of pals including long-time musical collaborator Rens Van Der Zalm from the Netherlands. It’s a beaut!
Not long after her stint with the Cecil Sharp Project, Scottish fiddler Patsy Reid left Breabach and set out on a solo career (whilst still contributing to VAMM, Kathryn Tickell’s Northumbria Voices, ses- sioning on numerous albums and more). Now she has her own band. This is it!
Not content with his roles with Greek psyche outfit Mavrika, the Anglo-Kenyan Owiny Sigoma Band and Chartwell Dutiro, guitarist Chris Morphitis also found time to go into his garden shed with pals including Hassan Erraji to record a very imaginative solo album.
And indeed he also did the production chores on the masterful double CD of deep
Zimbabwean music by Chartwell Dutiro’s Chipindura Mbira Trio. Chartwell, long the UK’s resident go-to man for mbira magic, first came to the UK with legends Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited.
Although long based in Wellington, New Zealand, songwriter Helen Dorothy grew up in Kent. “Helen Dorothy writes beautifully-crafted, intelligent songs rich in memorable imagery,” we said in our recent review of her second album and we’re not about to argue with ourselves!
Shanren come from the mountainous
Yunnan region in the south west of China, where they’ve done lots of song collecting and research into local instruments. They’ve incorporated the results into their modern take on tradition, another muta- tion of that idea we call folk rock…
Thoroughly original and endearingly
odd North Western multi-instrumental trio Harp And A Monkey – Martin Purdy, Simon Jones and Andy Smith – popped into the wider national consciousness via their 2011 debut album and the Weirdlore compilation. Here’s volume 2…
Basque trikitixa (melodeon) master Kepa Junkera’s latest album is BIG! It’s a double CD in a large hardback book, in which he collaborates with many of the major names of Galician music, including the bagpipes, hurdy gurdy, percussion and more of veteran sextet Os Cempés.
Familha Artús (to give them their full name) are from Gascony in south west France, mixing dark Blowzabella-esque bagpipes and hurdy gurdy with experi- mental industrial rock and more. Their fourth album adapts psychedelic texts from 1960s Gascon poet Bernard Manciet.
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