Reviews
Världen kom Tillbaka
This delicate, tinkling debut steals in like fine hoar frost, its Swedish title speaking of the desire to reconnect with...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
Many Languages: One Soul
Five skilled clarinettists from across the Balkan peninsula have been convened by two clarinettist/composers from Germany, under the auspices of...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
Tall Tales & Misadventures
Album number three from the Irish five-piece Goitse (the name is an informal Irish greeting, meaning ‘come here’) follows 2012's...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
Razón de Son
Seville-born singer-songwriter and guitarist Raúl Rodríguez is familiar to flamenco fans through his Cuban-inflected fusions with the group Son de...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
Grind
The second album from the 11-piece Treacherous Orchestra sees the boys at their raucous best. Grind reflects the band's new,...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
Bahto Delo Delo
Marin ‘Tsagoi’ Sandu is an accordionist and singer from that heartland of Romanian Gypsy music, Clejani. Indeed he's the son...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
Songs of the Spanish Civil War Vols 1 & 2
Just as Western countries have today banned their subjects from travelling to fight in Syria, in the 1930s the US...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
The Chuck Norris Project
The track titles of this sixth album from the Edinburgh-based Americana collective read like a back-catalogue of dodgy Hollywood action...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
Silk & Stone
Amira Medunjanin is one of the great voices of the Balkans. A decade ago her album Rosa was a fantastic...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
