Reviews
Best of Mariza
This really is exactly what it says: highlights from the career of the extraordinary fado singer who released her debut...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Calaita Flamenco Son
Two years of intense gigging is very much in evidence on this confident flamenco fusion debut. Calaita Flamenco Son was...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Octave Fiddle – Baritone Violin
A fiddler of considerable skill and dexterity, Gavin Pennycook is also distinguished by his choice of instrument here: the baritone...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Fados de Amor
Rodrigo Costa Félix's second album is a compendium of ruminations on women and love. It's a somewhat old-fashioned affair in...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Blitzmash
Despite their ambition to remain at the cutting edge of innovative world jazz, the Amsterdam Klezmer Band has always been...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Silent Folk
Since the 1980s, Groupa have been at the vanguard of progressive Nordic folk, their boldness influencing a whole generation of...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Two Worlds
On Two Worlds, bass player, singer and composer Benjy Fox-Rosen creates an song cycle from the large body of work...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Live in Vienna
The death of The Dubliners’ ‘Banjo’ Barney McKenna in 2012 saw the surviving band members – Sean Cannon, Eamonn Campbell...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Borderlands
Borderlands crosses boundaries in two ways. Haddo is the duo of husband and wife Nicky and Will Pound: she hails...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Sleep Sound
Originally commissioned as part of Celtic Connections New Voices in 2012, Sleep Sound marks the Edinburgh-based harpist Rutherford's solo debut...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
