Reviews

Welcome to the Family

Project Rakija

Bosnian guitarist Igor Sekulović grew up in Banja Luka, loving the sevdah music his mother and aunts sang. He ended...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Vagrant Stanzas

Martin Simpson

The inspiration for Vagrant Stanzas came, according to Simpson, from sessions at the kitchen table with his neighbour Richard Hawley,...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Sotaque

Budiño

The Galician gaita, like its Celtic forebears the Scottish bagpipes and Irish uilleann pipes, produces rough-edged, high-pitched melodies that dance...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Turbines

Tunng

Flux is the keyword in Tunng's story, from its 2003 beginnings as a loose East London collective through to the...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Smile Som Sumarsole

Firil

Hallingdal is a Norwegian valley whose music is traditionally dominated by the Hardanger fiddle, and hailing is the name of...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Diphtong

Gisen, Ulvsand & Tullberg

Wooden flute and clarinet both have quite a history in Swedish music but have rarely, if ever, been heard together...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Radio Cos

Radio Cos

Xurxo Fernandes and Quique Peón are pandeireteiros – tambourine men. Popular on the folk circuit in their native Galicia, they...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

The Lost Tapes

Rodion GA

Every now and then a release sneaks out of the woodwork that nobody is prepared for. Strut have stumbled upon...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Stand Up, People: Gypsy Pop Songs From Tito's Yugoslavia 1964-1980

VARIOUS ARTISTS

When students Philip Knox and Nathaniel Morris found they shared a passion for Balkan music, specifically the kind discovered in...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013

Fire & Fortune

Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker

There's a strong tradition of classically trained musicians and composers who have been absorbed by and into the folk tradition...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013