Reviews

The Vice of the People

The Albion Band

Folk-rock guv’nor Ashley Hutchings has passed on the title deeds of The Albion Band to his son Blair Dunlop and,...

Reviewed in issue June/2012

Essentially Invisible to the Eye

Karen Tweed

I can't remember ever seeing Karen Tweed's [pictured right] name alone. It has always been Karen Tweed and Ian Carr...

Reviewed in issue June/2012

Bending the Dark

The Imagined Village

Here is music that illustrates how all culture begins as an idea in the human mind. The third Imagined Village...

Reviewed in issue June/2012

Sleeper

Kan

It's hard not to be distracted by the fact that this band was born from two of the 21st century's...

Reviewed in issue June/2012

State and Ancientry

Hannah James & Sam Sweeney

They've played together as a duo for a decade now. But these former Kerfuffle members keep busy: Sam Sweeney is...

Reviewed in issue June/2012

Picasso

Niño Baliardo & Gipsy Dynasty

Legendary French band The Gipsy Kings consist of two sets of brothers – the Baliardos and the Reyes. The Baliardos...

Reviewed in issue June/2012

Kai Tu Užaha?

Hilja Gronfors & Latso Dzinta

I thought I was familiar with most forms of Gypsy music but this album, recorded by the Finnish Roma singer...

Reviewed in issue June/2012

Skulk

Jim Moray

Let's never again speak of Jim Moray as a folk wünderkind. That implies promise not yet fully realised, immaturity, even....

Reviewed in issue June/2012

Empêche-Nous!

Moussu T e lei Jovents

France's favourite southerners are back with more balladry about life in the port city of La Ciotat, near Marseille. This...

Reviewed in issue June/2012

Enthralled

Oliver Schroer & Nuala Kennedy

The aptly titled Enthralled, a collaboration between Canadian fiddler and composer Schroer and Irish flautist and singer Kennedy, is a...

Reviewed in issue June/2012