Reviews
Djam OST
Tony Gatlif may be familiar from his films Latcho Drom and Gadjo Dilo, which had notable soundtracks. He's back with...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
La Fasciculation
Their name translates roughly as the ‘Sons of a French Gypsy poodle.’ They were the official group at the annual...
Reviewed in issue December/2017
The Turn of the Tide
This is the second solo album from the Sussex-based folk singer with fingers in many pies. He is the co-founder...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Topic Records: The Real Sound of Folk Music
Topic's double album is a broad introduction to the label's catalogue, and it draws its nets fairly wide. Some selections...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
From the Rich Dark Earth
Singer and violinist Abraham Brody was born and raised in the US, but for the last five years has been...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Dead Man's Dance
Guitarist Dylan Fowler, accordionist Jamie Smith and violinist Oliver Wilson-Dickson have all worked together on projects such as The Devil's...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
A Day a Month
It is hard to believe that A Day a Month is the first collaboration of those ubiquitous stalwarts of the...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Windrose
A fair few classical string quartets – most recently the Danish String Quartet – have developed traditional music side projects....
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Sven Nyhus Kvintett
The 85-year-old Sven Nyhus is a major figure in the history of Norwegian traditional music: a fiddler, composer and musicologist...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
