Reviews
Benedicte Maurseth
Benedicte Maurseth is a pre-eminent player of the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Unlike the conventional violin, a Hardanger fiddle has four...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Awaken
Their name is certainly as playful as the music: a blend of distinctly old-school Parisian swing and Gypsy jazz with...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
The Road to Peterloo
Two centuries ago, mounted and armed troopers viciously waded into thousands of men, women and children who were gathered peacefully...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Old Friends & Exhausted Enemies
Luke Daniels' four solo albums since his days as the well-respected button accordion virtuoso heard on Riverdance or with the...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Dentro Desse Mar
The accordion might sound neither very dancy nor particularly occult, but this quartet from Águeda near Porto do something with...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Visuma Vizoša Tumsa
ZeMe was created by two Latvian musicians: DJ Monsta (Uldis Cirulis) and kokle (traditional Latvian zither) master Laima Jansone. Their...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Mediterranean Quartet
Matia Levréro & Tcha Limberger
Belgian Gypsy violinist Tcha Limberger has featured several times in these pages for his excellent jazz manouche, Hungarian Gypsy and...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Ked’ Vojačik Narukoval
I love the design of this album. With its distressed sleeve and retro typography, it looks like something I might...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Sara Correia
Occasionally, a new voice reminds us that traditional fado is still very much alive and proves that the pop or...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Respeitosa Mente
Although there is no obvious trace of Lebanese oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil in Respeitosa Mente, it is hard to imagine...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
