Reviews
Revolve and Rotate
Luke Daniels’ last album What's Here, What's Gone found him evolving from a well-respected button accordion virtuoso to a more-than-respectable...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Hello, Goodbye
Celebrating 25 years as a professional musician, multi-instrumentalist John McCusker teams up with a cast of musician friends who have...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Poor Strange Girl
A singer, multi-instrumentalist and dancer from Ripponden in West Yorkshire, Alice Jones has been around folk music since she was...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Riû
After a very promising debut album, produced by Argentinian musician Gustavo Santaolalla (leader of Bajofondo Tango Club), Cuca Roseta looked...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Drifting Like a Bird
There's a real delicacy and charm in Annbjørg Lien's Drifting Like a Bird, a studio version of the commissioned work...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
O Fado em Nós
For quite some time, it looked like Pedro Moutinho would never live up to the rather unfair job of stepping...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
From Mountain to Mountain
The death in 2015 of Kentucky-born Jean Ritchie at the age of 92 saw the passing of a leading American...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Une Meeles
The 2013 debut album by the Estonian fiddler and singer Maarja Nuut secured her a WOMEX showcase, which those lucky...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Mulher do Norte
There is hardly a greater challenge to any fadista than addressing the immaculate and unbeatable Amália Rodrigues’ repertoire. Amália cannot...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
