Reviews
Rescued Treasure
This is rescued treasure indeed. The Semer Ensemble bring back to life the previously lost recordings of Hirsch Lewin's Semer...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Antipodes
This ill-Focused collection of ‘found sound’ excerpts mixed in with live performances – conducted, presumably, on the streets – and...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Granada 1013-1502
Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI & La Capella Reial de Catalunya
On his new theme album, named after Granada – the city that epitomised Muslim rule in Spain and also witnessed...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Storied Sounds
Accordionist and composer Tuulikki Bartosik made quite an impression with her previous album, Chatterbox, with Hannah James. Her latest project,...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Live at WOMEX Budapest
Ágnes Herczku and her band, led by Nikola Parov, are standout musicians on the Hungarian folk scene, and their album...
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Shadows
It's been a productive few years for the acclaimed and distinctive English art-folk duo of Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow....
Reviewed in issue October/2016
Every Bird that Flies
‘The Fall’ begins in paradise: lying on the ground on a summer's day, and a child running about. Suddenly there's...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
Most Jöttem
Félix Lajkó is Hungary's most groundbreaking violinist and this is one of his best recordings in years. He inhabits an...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
Leyenda
Paying tribute variously to Mother Earth, to a Chinese goddess of flight and to the wicked sirens of Andalusian waterfalls,...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
The Remarkable Return of Old Man Basco
Originally, Basco were formed as a vehicle for Hal Parfitt-Murray's music after he met members Anders Tophøj and Anders Ringgaard...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
