Reviews

What Makes You

Elephant Sessions

Indie folk champions Elephant Sessions return with their second album, and a cracker it is too. Winners of Live Act...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

Meanders

Rob Harbron

A Labrador, catching the scent of rabbits in the bushes, sniffs about. ‘Polly in the Wood’, one of several lovely...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

Tango Ladeado

Janne Rättyä & Patrick Demenga

Finland's tango, while a spin-off of the Argentinian/Parisian original and almost as old, is a separate tradition altogether. Its cool,...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

An Evening With

Nancy Kerr & James Fagan

To celebrate more than 20 years as a duo, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan opted not for some studio compilation...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

Give Me Wine

Romano Drom

Hungarian band Romano Drom have been together for at least 20 years; in that time they have established themselves as...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

Mrak

Boban Marković Orkestar

Boban Marković is a member of a distinguished Romani musical dynasty, an outstanding trumpeter and bandleader, and an inventive composer...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

The Magid Chronicles

Veretski Pass & Joel Rubin

At the height of the klezmer revival in the 1980s and 90s, there were dozens of (mainly) US bands reinterpreting...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

Feather

Edgelarks

Edgelarks are Devon-based folk duo Hannah Martin and Phillip Henry, and their fifth studio album finds them once again clinging...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

Field and Dyke

Danny Pedler & Greg Russell

I grew up in Herefordshire, a place that, like South Holland in Lincolnshire, missed the post-war migrants who came to...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019

Cuatro

Las Migas

Flamenco dance has been undergoing a quasi-feminist revival for some time, as virtuosos like Sara Baras, María Pagés and Rafaela...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2019