Reviews

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Pilgrims’ Way

Formed in a pub under the Stockport viaduct, this rough and ready young trio interpret classics of the English folk...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Kalakan

Kalakan

In the Basque country, cider drinking is never so exciting as when the call to celebrate the new pressing is...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

There Are Birds in My Garden

David Gibb

This second album from the 20-year-old Derbyshire musician reveals a talent and a sense of adventurousness in terms of instrumentation...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Beginner's Guide to Scandinavia

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Strictly speaking, Scandinavia consists of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, but compiler Tatiana Rucinska has opted here to defer to common...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

The Works

Spiers & Boden

John Spiers and Jon Boden are best-known now as the musical masterminds at the heart of folk-burlesque big-band Bellowhead. They...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Folly

Mary Hampton

Listening to Folly, I'm reminded of Tunng's absorption with the childlike, with a particularly English sense of innocence mixed with...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Meu Canto

Uxia

Galician singer Uxía has a strong and varied recorded repertoire, and much of her work has been distinguished by successful...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

Malta's Lost Voices

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Now that's what I call a CD set. A foot-tall board-encased booklet, shaped like an old gramophone loudspeaker trumpet, is...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

The Rough Guide to English Folk

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This is, in a sense, not one but two Rough Guides. The first is a selection of 17 tracks compiled...

Reviewed in issue October/2011

What the Folk?!

Kerekes Band

2008's Fela Kalappal took the Hungarian band's repertoire of music out of the Carpathians and pulled it into the shape...

Reviewed in issue October/2011