Reviews

Lumiere

Lumiere

The eponymous debut offering from Lumiere heralds an impressive and altogether bewitching partnership between seasoned vocalists Éilís Kennedy and Patricia...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

Transatlantic Sessions 4: Volume 2

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The second CD release taken from last year's fourth outing of the Transatlantic Sessions TV series captures – much better...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

Al Maraya

Al Andaluz Project

The giveaway is in the title. If you slip the word ‘project’ into your name, you are probably in earnest....

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

Grannen

Frigg

Frigg can do no wrong. I have waxed lyrical about them in these pages in the past and am beginning...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

Gigi de Nissa

Gigi de Nissa

Gigi is the nom de plume of one Louis Pastorelli, a fellow traveller of Moussu T – a shared personal...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

Both Sides of the Aegean

Hüsnü Senlendirici & Trio Chios

Hüsnü Şenlendirici is Turkey's big clarinet star, famed for his glitzy virtuoso style and, unfortunately, a tendency for saccharine arrangements...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

Sabor de Gracia

Sabor Pa’ Rato

If you're familiar with the rumba catalana form of music, it may well be from listening to Ojos de Brujo,...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

The Rough Guide to Paris Café

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Oh dear, here we go again. Cue the Citroën DS archive shots and the old tourist board copy. More ethno-musicological...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

Holdvilágos (In the Moonlight)

Napra

Napra is a Hungarian folk band that deserves to be heard. They bring a rock attitude to traditional music with...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010

The Life of Birds

David Rotheray

The guitarist of the Beautiful South has gathered together a formidable flock of folk talent for his debut solo album,...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2010