Reviews
Lichtungen
The hurdy-gurdy is an instrument that lurks slightly in the shadows. It appears in a few folk bands, like Blowzabella,...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Onwards to Mars!
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Fanfare Ciocărlia's launch, Onwards to Mars! serves up 14 new recordings. There are a...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Maggio
Maggio stands alongside past highlights from this solid, masterful quartet: it embraces Tuscan and Central Italy's traditional music, hints of...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Future Sound of Ukraine: Borsh Division
As Vlad Trotsky, theatre director and conceptual genius behind DakhaBrakha, once put it: ‘Old Europe is tired and cynical and...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
This House Will Stand
For this Best Of set, Oysterband have compiled a disc of choice cuts from across their late-90s and post-2000s career,...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Reste la Lumière
This album starts off, appropriately enough, with a track called ‘Courage’, and the long vocal line supported only by a...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Good Times Will Come Again
The seventh studio album from the enviably self-sufficient husband-and-wife team of Stu and Debbie Hanna, otherwise known as Megson, strikes...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Live: The Farewell Tour
Bellowhead made some great studio albums but their concerts are extraordinary. There was the horn section, kicking like a chorus...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Vårdroppar
It's enough of a selling point to say that the liner notes for this album were written by the great...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
