Reviews
The Long Road and the Far Horizons
It's safe to say fiddler Gavin Marwick is spoiling us. His latest release is a double-CD of 27 tracks, comprising...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Révület
These two discs represent new approaches to Hungarian folk by leading figures on the Budapest scene. Slovak-born and classically trained,...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Medea
Composed to accompany performances of Euripides’ bloody revenge tragedy Medea at the EpÍdavros and Athens Festivals in 2011, Eleni Karaindrou’s...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014
This year’s Radio 2 Folk Awards night at the Royal Albert Hall featured some priceless moments: a duet between Martin...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Never Forget
Vocal trio The Young’uns demonstrated a flair for bringing both traditional and modern stories to life on their 2012 album...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Weltensprung
Weltensprung is a spine-tingling contemporary look at Bavarian folk music. The title itself translates roughly to ‘world jump.’ With this...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Wide Open
Following his recent collaboration with Jarlath Henderson on their 2013 release Air-fix, Ross Ainslie delivers another fine set of mainly...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
All Life is Here
Harp and a Monkey, as the abrupt band name suggests, are a plain-speaking Lancastrian folk group. Frontman Martin Purdy tells...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
El Baile de las Horas
Marina Abad was the powerful, husky-voiced fulcrum of flamenco, hip-hop, Latin fusioneers Ojos de Brujo until they disbanded in 2011....
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Como la Luna y el Sol
There is now a legion of different approaches to Sephardic song but two predominate. There’s the scholarly, supposedly authentic manner,...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
