Reviews

Di Corsica Riposu; Requiem pour Deux Regards

A Filetta

Corsica In Repose; A Requiem of Two Visions is the album's title; looking both ways is the essence of what...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

Beginners Guide To Brass

VARIOUS ARTISTS

You name it, Nascente has a compilation out celebrating it. Now the veteran UK label has given the brass band...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

The Mystery Inch

Damien O’Kane & David Kosky

Twelve instrumentals, five pairs of hands, and about as much transportative fun and joyful tune-making as you can imagine: welcome...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

Amulette

Amira

Tim Cumming tells the story of Amira recording ‘Bele Ruže’, the Saban Bajramović song that opens this album in his...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

On The Move

Colin Farrell

Firstly (as he must surely be heartily sick of hearing by now), this Colin Farrell is not the famously rowdy...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

Ups and Downs

Zoox

Zoox are Linda Game, Jo May and Becky Menday, who play a range of esoteric instruments including djembé, congas, balafon,...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

Lady Diamond

Bryony Griffith & Will Hampson

Surprisingly, this is the debut album by a duo that already has a long pedigree. Griffith and Hampson have been...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

Happ

Fribo

The innovative Scottish/Scandinavian/English band is happy to admit to being in something of a period of transition, Fribo sound in...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

Gore (Burning)

RUTA

RUTA is an anarchic project that reveals a little-known violent aspect of Polish history. The album's sub-title Songs of Rebellion...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

Doors at Eight

Peter Knight's Gigspanner

Peter Knight is the fiddle player in Steeleye Span but, since those folk– rock pioneers have been ploughing the same...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011