Reviews
Gisela João
There is an infallible method to tell apart a remarkable singer from a merely very good one. Let's call it...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Finno-Balkan Voices
Eight female vocalists – four Finnish, and four Bulgarian – meet here in a collaboration that stems from a course...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
A Day Like Tomorrow
Fabian Holland has been praised for his guitar playing, which is fluid, elegant and blues-tinged but not over-elaborate. The same...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay
It's titled Nothing More because there is nothing more by Fotheringay out there than the 52 tracks on this three-CD...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Charms Against Sorrow
Hannah Sanders spent much of her teens traversing the land in an old Bedford school bus, singing the traditional songs...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
With the Dawn
Bella Hardy's new album begins with the track ‘The Only Thing to Do’, a striking and beautiful ballad addressing love...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Sheear
Not long ago, UNESCO was forced to change its classification of the Manx language from ‘extinct’ following protests from some...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Jelszó
Félix Lajkó & Budafoki Dohnányi Zenekar
Lajkó is one of Europe's most talented and most adventurous violinists. Hungarian-speaking, but Serbian-born, he transcends musical borders, ranging from...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
In a Cosmic Ear
Up until their dissolution in the mid-1990s, Calabria's Re Niliu had been diving deep into traditional Italian peasant music, growing...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015
This year's Folk Awards release ranges widely and somewhat surprisingly: there's Peggy Seeger, in her 80s singing not a rousing...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
