Having Alfredo Marceneiro, Amalia Rodrigues, Lucília do Carmo, Fernando Farinha, Maria Teresa de Noronha and Hermínia Silva on one record...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Matilde Politi e Compagnia Bella
Palermo-born Matilde Politi sings of disillusionment and resistance, despair and anger, love and longing, relationships and intimacy; she does so...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
On her first album in seven years, one of the most truthful voices in music remains powerful and unyielding, no...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
From the first to the last note of the second album from this Derbyshire duo – guitarist Gibb and fiddler...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Capercaillie’s Donald Shaw has recently observed that, even when you’ve been at the forefront of contemporary Gaelic music for 30...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
This album is one segment of an ambitious project from the EFDSS (English Folk Dance and Song Society), drawing together...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Wild and Undaunted was a striking debut, followed six years later by 2012’s Hunt the Hare EP. Now, at last,...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Readers may already be familiar with Çigdem Aslan, as she’s lead singer with She’koyokh, the fabulous London-based Balkan klezmer ensemble....
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Mynd is the apt title of this excellent album, an Old English word meaning both ‘act of commemoration’ and ‘intellect.’...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
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