Reviews

A[ch]a-I-Viat[s]a

Asa-i-Viata

Move out of the way: this heady mix of Balkan tunes, electronic beats and myriad international influences is crossover music...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Mames Babegenush With Strings

Mames Babegenush

This fifth helping of Babegenush is as joyous, sorrowful and deftly produced as the group's previous albums, and this time...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

A Pocket of Wind Resistance

Karine Polwart with Pippa Murphy

From the first note to the final, pulsing heartbeat, this is not merely an album of songs but a full...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Wiejski Dżez

Kapela Maliszów

The Malisz family hail from Męcina Mała, a small village in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains near the Slovakian...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Three Letters from Sarajevo

Goran Bregović

In a career spanning more than three decades, Goran Bregović has gone from Yugoslavian rock star to populariser of brassy...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Sssht

WÖR

‘All tunes written in Antwerp, Ghent, Leuven and other nearby places during the 18th century,' the CD sleeve proudly proclaims....

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Singing Ways to Feel More Junior

Luke Daniels

Since finding his solo mojo with What's Here What's Gone, praised in these very pages for repurposing the kind of...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Vivat Vivere

I Fratelli Tarzanelli

Pablo Golder (diatonic accordion) and Baltazar Montanaro (baritone violin) have been playing together for a decade, touring and recording three...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Dominion

Melrose Quartet

This quartet is the combination of two duos – Nancy Kerr and James Fagan with Richard and Jess Arrowsmith –...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Elbow Room

Danny Diamond

Following 2016's North, a set of bracing duos with Belfast-born fiddler Conor Caldwell, Elbow Room is the second solo offering...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018