TALES OF STRANGENESS
Emily Portman’s remarkable new album The Glamoury isn’t designed for the children’s bedtime. Colin Irwin delves into the weirdness.
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Here’s what’s in fRoots, No. 324, June 2010
- THE EDITOR’S BOX
- Ian Anderson’s comment column.
- fROOTS PLAYLIST
- Recent stuff we like.
- CHARTS & LISTS
- Specialist and general roots music album sales and airplay charts.
- REVIEWS
- Our key section reviewing all the latest CDs and more - loads bite the dust. No punches pulled!
- ROOTING ABOUT
- What’s happening: packed pages of festivals, gigs, tours, radio, CDs and all kinds of roots-related stuff. The most you’ll find anywhere…
- ROOT SALAD
- A cross-section of featurettes: Ghanaian veteran A.B. Crentsil; folkrockers Little Johnny England and Taran; Salif Keita’s live shows; US adventurers Dirt Music; Canada’s La Volée D’Castors; and Sardinia’s Elena Ledda in our Rocket Launcher.
- TALES OF STRANGENESS
- Emily Portman’s remarkable new album The Glamoury isn’t designed for the children’s bedtime. Colin Irwin delves into the weirdness.
- UNITED FRONTIERS
- Transglobal Underground’s latest project teamed folk artists from around Europe and beyond on the theme of migration. Jamie Renton hears how it evolved.
- CROSSOVER EAST
- Russia’s Terem Quartet have launched an international competition for musical crossovers. Thomas Brooman went to St. Petersburg to sit on the jury.
- PAGES OF AGES
- Life with the ancestors. Ian Anderson takes a time machine back to the 1950s and ’60s and the heyday of the UK’s early folk music fanzines.
- THE FLUTE ROUTE
- Michael McGoldrick’s been round the world with his amazing flute and pipe playing, but is just as fond of his local Manchester pub sessions. Colin Irwin tags along.
- UNCOOL BAVARIA
- LaBrassBanda have been taking their lederhosen-clad punkadelic oompah party music to the dancing masses. Robert Rigney checks out their unlikely success.
- BIFF!
- Our exclusive cartoon strip.
Plus dozens of pages of essential adverts.
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