Reviews

The Space Between

Jamie Smith's Mabon

For their new inter-Celtic album, the five-piece Mabon, led by the accordion and voice of Jamie Smith, enlisted Jim Moray...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Yet We Sing

Cara

Germany has enjoyed a long-standing love affair with Celtic music, and Cara, featuring four of Germany's finest traditional musicians and...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

La Vida Llega

Pepe Luis Carmona Habichuela

This album heralds a double return: Pepe Luis’ reappearance after his time as singer with the flamenco-pop band La Barbería...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

City of the Future: Yiddish Songs from the Former Soviet Union

Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi

Yale Strom is one of the most adventurous personalities on the American klezmer scene. He's not only recorded over a...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Legend of the Bulgarian Clarinet

Georgi Koev

This wonderful selection, devoted to clarinettist Georgi Koev (born 1910), has been recovered by Canadian Yves Moreau from the tape...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

In the Round

Leveret

Leveret recorded their first album in a day. In the Round makes that seem extravagant – it was recorded in...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Ahoy Hoy

Boreas

Boreas are a new Norwegian-Scots quartet featuring Hardanger fiddle player Britt Pernille FrØholm, accordionist Irene Tillung and, from Scotland, fiddle...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Viena

Värttinä

Having worked with Värttinä earlier in 2015, I had a sense that their new album was going to be something...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Wiano

Sutari

Sutari are three Polish singers and instrumentalists who have their own take on traditional songs with a female perspective. It's...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Esteesee

Ange Hardy

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the greats of English literature – a founding poet of 19th-century Romanticism. Apparently he...

Reviewed in issue April/2016