Reviews
Painted Lady
After a decade playing traditional music with melodeon maestro John Spiers, and many years fronting folk big band Bellowhead, Jon...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
Moda Velha
During the 20th century Portugal was under the gloomy spell of one of the world's longest dictatorships – highly conservative...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
Nyn
Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis
Stassinopoulou has aptly described herself as a ‘Balkan ethno-trance artist’ and a practitioner of techno-folk psychedelia. I’ve been listening to...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
The Fox
Best known as the guitarist and fiddler from Balkan mayhem merchants Sheelanagig, this intimate acoustic duo setting allows Kit Hawes...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
Sweet Liberties
This admirable project, commissioned by the Folk by the Oak festival and EFDSS to celebrate 800 years of the pursuit...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
Joint Control
Long celebrated as one of the UK's foremost acoustic guitarists, John Renbourn's work, whether solo or with supergroup Pentangle, always...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
Warp & Weft
This album is a debut from a duo of multi-instrumentalists Mike Cosgrave and Steve Banks. Built on fiddle (Banks) and...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Before We Change Our Mind
Take a handful of insanely talented Irish musicians, two accordions, guitar, fiddle, bodhrán, piano and vocals. Add 14 years of...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Nocturno
Gianni Iorio & Pasquale Stafano
Ever since Astor Piazzolla relocated to Milan in 1973 to spend a decade experimenting and recording blistering, audacious albums such...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Inspired by Chance
Their 2014 album Tall Tales and Misadventures saw Limerick quintet Goitse up the ante with a set marked by variety,...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
