Reviews
Temperamento: Traditional Songs from Spain
Vigüela is a Toledo-based outfit of singers, guitarists and players of castanets, tambourines, shearing scissors, cowbells, sieves, the lute-like bandurria,...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
Logos
Flamenco musicians have been testing out all kinds of fusions for decades now. Virtuoso guitarist Gerardo Núñez, who has had...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
Clear Skies
For the follow-up to their largely mellow and laidback 2012 debut, Open the Door for Three, Belfast trio Réalta have...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
War Stories
Lancashire-based Harp and a Monkey call themselves ‘electro-folk-storytellers’ and their songs resonate with a strong sense of history coupled with...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2016
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
