Reviews
Coimbra: Fado
This meticulously recorded disc aims to push the boundaries of Coimbra fado in the same way many have already done...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Night Songs from a Neighbouring Village
Michael Alpert & Julian Kytasty
Michael Alpert and Julian Kytasty are two superb American musicians. The former is a singer and violinist and leading light...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Dacw’r Tannau
Chris Jones started out singing unaccompanied traditional Welsh songs more than 20 years ago. He began picking up songs from...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
The Sea
Martha Tilston's previous albums mixed lyricism and a clear, ringing voice with social-political themes, but The Sea is her first...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Nightshade
This is one of the most spare recordings I have heard in some time. It is, very simply, fiddler Bryony...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Blikkspor
Old Norwegian tradition is exquisitely embodied in the playing of this young virtuoso Hardanger fiddler, who has garnered a pair...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Songs for the Voiceless
During World War I, the officer class attempted to suppress the marching song ‘If You Want to See the General’,...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Strange People
The third release from Portuguese klezmer quintet Melech Mechaya achieves what all klezmer bands set out to do – to...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Fiesta
Chico Bouchikhi co-founded the Gipsy Kings and wrote and arranged many of their 80s hits, before leaving in 1992 to...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
