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ELIZA CARTHY & THE WAYWARD BAND Big Machine (Topic) topicrecords.co.uk Crikey, this is BIG!

ENSEMBLE ÉRIU Imbas (Ensemble) ensemble.ie

Adventurous Irish beyond-trad septet.

OWEN WOODS In Any Weather (Talking Cat)

melodeonmusic.com Gifted young squeezebox upstart!

PIXVAE Pixvae

(Grolektif/ Buda) budamusique.com

‘Colombian crunch music’, it says here!

DIPPER MALKIN Tricks Of The Trade (Dipper Malkin) dippermalkin.com Viola d’amore meets guitar excellently.

AURELIO Darandi (Real World/ Stonetree) realworld.co.uk

The Garifuna superstar firing live. VOXTRA

The Encounter Of Vocal Heritage (Muziekpublique) muziekpublique.be

Glorious multi-tradition vocal mixage.

JIMMY ALDRIDGE & SID GOLDSMITH Night Hours (Fellside) fellside.com

UK folk duo crack it with great 2nd CD.

BABA ZULA XX

(Glitterbeat) glitterbeat.com 2 CD best of the Turkish psych folk rockers.

EMILIA AMPER Lux (BIS) bis.se

Swedish nyckelharpa goes classical.

JIM MORAY Upcetera Tour 20th Jan – 5th Feb www.jimmoray.co.uk

STROUD WASSAIL Stroud, Glos 14th January www.stroudwassail.com