Reviews
Psychedelic Trance Tarantella
Kalàscima come from Salento, at the southern end of Italy, which boasts an explosive musical culture. The cover of this...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Romanian Tales
Diana Rasina is a Romanian singer, based in Vienna. Romanian Tales is a strong album and certainly marks her as...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Romance(s)
After releasing Contos de Fados (a wordplay on ‘fairy tales’, replacing fairies with fados), Aldina Duarte decided to take time...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
The Longing Kind
‘For this album I didn’t want to hide behind historical disasters and mythological beastsat the expense of my own experience,’...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
The Watchmaker's Wife
This is a highly anticipated third album from the double-bassist and fine vocalist Miranda Sykes and mandolin maestro Rex Preston....
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Releasing the Leaves
Enthusiasts of English folk music will perhaps already be familiar with Dorset-based duo Ninebarrow. Their 2014 debut, While the Blackthorn...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Palimpsest
For their third album, Three Cane Whale eschew their previous in-the-field approach to recording – an 18th-century Bristol church for...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Swirling Sands
Dylan Fowler, Ian Melrose, Soïg Sibéril
Similar coastal landscapes adorn the sleeves of veteran Scottish guitarist Ian Melrose's two new records, both on the German guitar...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Anthology of Traditional Folk Music in Moravia 6: Love & Wedding Songs
These are the final releases in the excellent Czech label Indies Scope's survey of Moravian music. While the first four...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
