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Reflections on the best of the year so far. List will be updated.

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For the purposes of this “European list”, “the best of” excludes UK or Irish led albums categorised elsewhere.
I do think there is a specific “European sound” by the way.
The conundrum of course is not everyone in Europe plays a “European sound” although some in the list certainly do find a path to it through a hybrid sense of specific local folk musics or notions of European classical music.
Reader, that’s your task – to work out the whodunnit. Explain why, dearest Hercules and Maigrets of the parish – in fewer than 100, 000 words. Hope you enjoy our list. It’s a chance to step back for a moment and re-listen to some gems at the very least.

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Hello. I'm jazz writer Stephen Graham. This is my blog - hope you enjoy dipping into its pages and articles every so often. I hope that in time it can be like a "living source" for you if you share the feeling and sentiments expressed and echo that emotion. And even if you don't you can be harmlessly distracted while spending a few amiably diverting minutes leafing through the site's pages. Album reviews, some listings, a podcast, guest blogs, live reviews, playlists, interviews, thinkpieces and more are part of the scenery in these parts. Marlbank has been running since 2012. It's named after a beautiful place in Ireland, in Fermanagh, another kind of living source, a place that is a like a spring for the imagination. To borrow again from poet John Montague's 'The Water Carrier' such "heavy greenness fostered by water" abidingly inspires.

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