FolkWorld #76 11/2021

CD Reviews



»The invitation to participate in the festival in Náměště was a great challenge for me several times. All the more so in the pandemic period, when the uncertainty of live production prevailed. I approached my closest friends, musicians and the Babačka choir. A colorful program was created, including a beautiful cheerful decoration of the space, and the spontaneous joy of the audience in protective masks contributed to the creation of a unique atmosphere. Despite their mouths being covered, I could see the glowing sparks in their eyes and hear their voices. I believe that the recording of the concert will bring joy to the listeners at home and will help to spark positive vibes in their hearts.« (Iva Bittová)

»Big, brash holiday music—the type that we hear in big-box stores in the middle of December—has never resonated with me, and this past year it felt absolutely dissonant. I wanted to make a seasonal record that felt more in step with the way that I, and so many others, experience this time of year: quiet, contemplative, searching and bittersweet.« (Hiss Golden Messenger)

»After a year of picking up my guitar and then putting it down, I finally realize that as long as I got my guitar, all is good with my soul.« (Zac Harmon)



  English Reviews


Cara "Grounded" Germany / Scotland
Jared Rabin "Cold Rain and Snow" USA
Mia Guldhammer & Morten Alfred Høirup "Tral, Tråd & Traditioner" Denmark
Tre Martelli "Concerto di Natale" Italy
Dan Walsh "Live at the Floodgate" England
Tom Beaulieu "2021 Update" USA
Nolan McKelvey (with Megyn Neff and Tim Hogan) "Into The Silence" USA
Nolan McKelvey & Ron James "Songs of Hope" USA
Fia Ekberg "Bangatan" Sweden
Celenka "Villoi Varsa" Finland
Annie Gallup "Oh Everything" USA
Asleep at the Reel "The Emerald Dream" Australia
Catriona McKay "Love in Secret" Scotland
David Crosby "For Free" USA
Tip Jar "One Lifetime" Netherlands
Olaf Sickmann "New Irish Tin Whistle Tunes 2" Germany
Diana Jones "Song to a refugee" USA
West of Eden "Taube" Sweden
Various Artists "Lyden av Vestfold" Norway
Matt & Madeline "The Aim Was Song" USA
The Accidentals "Time Out" USA
Eric Lambert "Beating the odds" USA
Joy Zimmerman "The canvas before us" USA
John McCutcheon "Bucket List" USA
Mala Oreen "Awake" Switzerland
Christoph Hansen, Martje Johannsen, Kalle Johannsen "Mungard" Germany
Kalinec & KJ "Let’s get away" USA
Paul Kaplan "We shall stay here" USA
Anna Ekborg "Solo" Sweden
Eiwor Kjellberg Band "Stand Out" Sweden
Eoghan Neff "Unrecalled" Ireland
Granny's Attic "The Brickfields" England
Mette Kathrine "Familiealbum" Denmark
André Ferrari & Olov Johansson "In Beat Ween Rhythm" Sweden
Egeland & Marin "Farvel, Farvel" Norway / Sweden
Baptiste Loosfelt "Mésun" France
Les Copains "Autour d'Anost" France
Lucien Pillot "Musique Traditionnelle du Nivernais" France
Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham "No Rush" Scotland
Jane & Kyle "Of Hills and Valleys" Canada
Mel Biggs "From Darkness Comes Light" England
Old Blind Dogs "Knucklehead Circus" Scotland
Shane Cook & The Woodchippers "Be Here for a While" Canada
RÅ "Massiv" Denmark
Stundom "Må jeg Holde din Hånd?" Denmark
Terry Clarke-Coyne "Whistle Walks" Wales
The McDades "The Empress" Canada
Isla Ratcliff "The Castalia" Scotland
Britt Pernille Frøholm "Årringar" Norway
Jydsk På Næsen "Kort og Godt" Denmark
Marit & Rona "Nollaig" Scotland
Marvara "High On Life" Denmark / Sweden / Belgium
Various Artists "The Rhythms of Migration" Britain
Fourth Moon "Odyssey" Ireland

Short & Sweet:

A Moving Sound | Ana Alcaide | Altered Five Blues Band | Pancho Alvarez | Sharadchandra Arolkar | Jack Badcock | Badieh | Aisha Badru | The Barefoot Movement | Bapi Das Baul | Belcirque | Nathan Bell | Paul Benoit | Bergson | Eddie Berman | Eric Bibb | Bill and the Belles | Jade Bird | Iva Bittová | Rodd Bland | Blind Lemon Pledge | Ed Blunt | Joe Bonamassa | Debbie Bond | The Brothers Comatose | Brothers Osborne | Jackson Browne | Nora Brown | Danny Bryant | Tré Burt | Sam Bush | Guy Buttery | Jon Byrd | Mark Cameron | Jo Carley | Willi Carlisle | Katy Carr | Celmaca Dúo | Ben Chasny | Chatham County Line | Jeff Chaz | Cheng Yu | Corde Oblique | Charley Crockett | Daniels Miller Marsh | Helena Davidsson | Guy Davis | Steve Dawson | The Dead South | Lila Downs | Diane Durrett | Bard Edrington V | Jonathan Edwards | Seamus Egan | Eläkeläiset | Ensemble Marâghî | George Ensle | Piers Faccini | Fascination Curve | Feuerschwanz | Katie Ferrara | Martha Fields | Béla Fleck | Furious Seasons | Iona Fyfe | Gibrish | Steven Graves | Mary Gauthier | Jackson Grimm | John Wort Hannam | Zac Harmon | Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble | The Highway Women | Joji Hirota | Hiss Golden Messenger | Malcolm Holcombe | Tony Holiday | Matt Horan | Ingram Lambert Randall | I See Hawks in L.A. | Willie Jackson | Jackson & Sellers | Julian James | Teresa James | Johnny Ray Jones | Tony Kamel | Anana Kaye | Luca Kiella | Kadialy Kouyate | Dafné Kritharas | Lady A | Lady Psychiatrist's Booth | Dennis Kwong Thye Lee | Leon Creek | Taylor Leonhardt | Los Lobos | The Lucky Ones | Rob Lutes | Lera Lynn | Rachel Magoola | Mama & Friends | The Margos | Gabriel Akhmad Marin | Mary Sarah | Massilia Sound System | John Mayall | Gerald McClendon | Matt McGinn | Murray McLaughlin | Mean Mary | Megson | The Mick Schafer Band | Giulia Millanta | Miss Lady Blues | RB Morris | multumult | Lukas Nelson | Rachel Newton | Noctambule | Tim O'Brien | Aoife O Donovan | Polly O'Keary | Joy Oladokun | David Olney | Opium Moon | Osi and the Jupiter | Davide Pannozzo | Charlie Parr | Matt Patershuk | Perttula | Makenzie Phipps | Tiffany Pollack | Pontún | The Porkroll Project | Laurel Premo | Preßburger Klezmer Band | Punch Brothers | Quadro Nuevo | EJ Ouellette | Joe Robinson | Tom Rodwell | Mark Rogers | The Royal Hounds | Russkaja | Phillip Sandifer | Adam Schultz | Aoife Scott | The Secret Sisters | Karl Seglem | Jon Shain | Shaked & Mazor | Jake Shimabukuro | Ryan Shupe | Sideline | SonDeSeu | St Agnes Fountain | Stash | The Steel Wheels | Christopher Paul Stelling | The Story Song Scientists | Billy Strings | Clayton Sturgeon | Sultans of String | Sofia Talvik | Tanxugueiras | Tara Fuki | Julian Taylor | Kate Taylor | Gordie Tentrees | Hans Theessink | Chris Thile | Allan Thomas | Jordan Tice | Johnny Tucker | Unspoken Tradition | The Vegetarians | Joseph Veloz | FJ Ventre | Brad Vickers | Marco R Wagner | War & Pierce | Watchhouse | Little G Weevil | David Wilcox | Walt Wilkins | Kathryn Williams | Big Daddy Wilson | Elly Wininger | Luke Winslow-King | Ye Banished Privateers | Yosh & Yimmy | Dan + Claudia Zanes | Zedashe

Various Artists:

"Bluegrass At The Crossroads"



  Deutsche Rezensionen


Cara "Grounded" Germany / Scotland
Northern Light "Stolen Berries" Germany
Silverfuchs "Teifli eini..." Austria
Daniel Kahn "word beggar" USA
Billy Bragg "The Million Things That Never Happened" England
Michael van Merwyk "Blue River Rising" Germany
Konstantin Wecker "Utopia" Germany
Latin Quarter "Releasing the Sheep" England
Eleanor McEvoy "Gimme Some Wine" Ireland
Bad Temper Joe "No Filter: One Take Radio Recordings" Germany
Zydeco Playboys "Just Do It" Germany
Chris Kramer & Beatbox'n'Blues "21st Century Blues" Germany
Chris Kramer "Die Weihnachtsgeschichte" Germany
Heinz Rudolf Kunze "Werdegang" Germany
Hannes Wader "Poetenweg" Germany
Skinny Lister "A Matter Of Life & Love" England
Caitríona O'Leary "Strange Wonders: The Wexford Carols, Vol. II" Ireland
Marvara "High On Life" Denmark / Sweden / Belgium
Tom Beaulieu "2021 Update" USA
Nolan McKelvey (with Megyn Neff and Tim Hogan) "Into The Silence" USA
Nolan McKelvey & Ron James "Songs of Hope" USA
Fia Ekberg "Bangatan" Sweden
Celenka "Villoi Varsa" Finland
Annie Gallup "Oh Everything" USA
Asleep at the Reel "The Emerald Dream" Australia
Catriona McKay "Love in Secret" Scotland
David Crosby "For Free" USA
Tip Jar "One Lifetime" Netherlands
Olaf Sickmann "New Irish Tin Whistle Tunes 2" Germany
Diana Jones "Song to a refugee" USA
West of Eden "Taube" Sweden
Various Artists "Lyden av Vestfold" Norway
Matt & Madeline "The Aim Was Song" USA
The Accidentals "Time Out" USA
Eric Lambert "Beating the odds" USA
Joy Zimmerman "The canvas before us" USA
John McCutcheon "Bucket List" USA
Mala Oreen "Awake" Switzerland
Christoph Hansen, Martje Johannsen, Kalle Johannsen "Mungard" Germany
Kalinec & KJ "Let’s get away" USA
Paul Kaplan "We shall stay here" USA
Ambäck "Doorzögli" Switzerland
Aua Aua "Alles Gut" Germany
AySay "Su Akar" Denmark
Barbora Xu "Olin Ennen" Czech Republic
Dem Trio "Anatolian Dances" Turkey
Fanfare Ciocărlia "It wasn't hard to love you" Romania
Geronimo "Run High" Belgium
Henna "Young Femal Voices from Palaestine" Norway
Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet "Eigenbräu" Switzerland
Jeanette Hubert "Home" Germany
Kasai Allstars "black ants always fly together, one bangle makes no sound" Congo
Lalala Napoli "Cavalluccio" France / Italy
Monsieur Doumani "Pissourin" Cyprus
Rainald Grebe "Popmusik" Germany
Ramon Bessel "Lieder zum Festhalten" Germany
Sofia Labropoulou "Sisyphus" Greece
Stella Chiwese "Ambuya" Zimbabwe
Tawny Ellis "Love Life" USA
Tarab Trio "Aman hey Aman" Germany / Iran / Iraq
Tim Grimm "Gone" USA

Kurz & bündig:

Aisha Badru | Bavaschôro | Joe Bennick | Birds On A Wire | John Blek | Philip Bradatsch | bratfisch | Wolfgang Buck | Erkin Cavus | Che Sudaka | Il Civetto | Elisabeth Cutler | Reentko Dirks | Doc Dooley | Drüdieter | Dr. Will | Fjarill | Folk&Bass Orchestra | Fuchsteufelswild | Marta Gómez | Die Grenzgänger | Schorsch Hampel | Hanika Straub Banez | Horn & Seide | In Extremo | Graeme James | Gisbert zu Knyphausen | Kapelle Kager | Kolektif Istanbul | Michael Lane | Larkin Poe | Lissie | Marbl | Amira Medunjanin | Melrose Krause Tsiachris | Miss Allie | Brent Moyer | My Sister Grenadine | Karl Neukauf | Nihiloxica | Ouzo Bazooka | Razoof | Niamh Regan | Saltatio Mortis | Scarlet O' | Norbert Schneider | Kai Schumacher | Schweizer Jugendchor | Ballaké Sissoko | Skalar | Stellmäcke | Joanne Shaw Taylor | Urferd | Vedan Kolod | Wowakin | Zenobia زنوبي | Christina Zurbrügg

Various Artists:

"Almost Christmas - Christmas Mistletunes" | "Noel en Bretagne"



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