Reviews
Roots
North Carolina fiddler Andrew Finn Magill makes a convincing bid for wider recognition with Roots, the first in a projected...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
A Thousand Cranes
Çiğdem Aslan is a Turkish-born, Hackney-based singer who first came to my attention when she joined She’Koyokh, the fabulous Balkan...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Bottle Bank Band
Made up of four Tyneside fiddlers – Sophy Ball, Chloe Jones, David Jones and Stewart Hardy – and taking their...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Out of My Own Light: The Margaret S Tait Project
In 1950, Margaret S Tait, aged 25, set out on a solo trip from Orkney across the North Atlantic and...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Divé Husy (Wild Geese)
Singer and violinist Jitka Šuranská is a rising star of the Czech music scene, drawing inspiration from the traditional music...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Navega!
From Marseille, singer Tatou and crew have continued leaping across to the US, bringing the Occitan language to new audiences....
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Spain Forever
This is the latest in a very occasional series of duo albums by the Dominican pianist Michel Camilo and Andalusian...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Coda: A Concluding Event
The male a capella trio bring their close-harmonies and politically engaged and socially conscious music-making to a close with Coda....
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
Farewell to the Homeland: Poyln
Behind this album is the story of the Frand family who travelled from Dubiecko, Poland to the US in the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2017
