Reviews
Balkan Projekt
Cimbaliband are one of Hungary's great party bands. As their name suggests, the hammered cimbalom, as played by Balázs Unger,...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Hugsjá
In 2014, Norway's Ivar Bjørnson and Einar Selvik were commissioned to create an album to mark the 200th anniversary of...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Road to the North
Graham Mackenzie (fiddle), David Shedden (pipes/whistle), and Innes White (guitar/mandolin) have performed together as a trio for some years, but...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Sim
There are two great regional fado traditions. The more popular comes from Lisbon and includes pretty much every artist known...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Katta ame aava? (Where Do We Come From?)
Finland has a small Roma community and a tango scene – both the music and the dance. So much so...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
The Joy of Living
Ewan MacColl wrote the song Jackie Oates has chosen as the title-track of her seventh album when he realised his...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Folk Fever
Unlikely bedfellows they may be, but it transpires that disco and folk conspire to produce a highly satisfying reimagining of...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Botany Bay
This new album of traditional songs from Hertfordshire's Kelly Oliver is produced by Megson's Stuart Hanna, who manages to frame...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Serbian War Songs
Zeitkratzer, Svetlana Spajic, Dragana Tomic & Obrad Milic
This extraordinary, uncompromising and intense collaboration between Berlin-based hyper-contemporary ensemble Zeitkratzer and a few singers specialising in traditional Serbian-language folklore...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
Grúňom Hore
What I like about this Slovak band is their total faith in the pastoral culture of their region. Take their...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
