Reviews
Momentos
Dulce Pontes began her musical career in 1991 when, as a shy teenager, she sang for Portugal in the Eurovision...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010
Cantendi a Deus
In her extensive research about her native island music, the Sardinian singer Elena Ledda has regularly delved into the traditional...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010
The Longshot
Never has hard graft been so tenderly celebrated as on The Long Shot, the North¬umbrian husband-and-wife duo’s fourth album. Stu...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010
Birds and Beasts: Music by Martyn Bennett & Fraser Fifield
Regarded as one of the most innovative Scottish musicians of his time on the back of albums such as 1998...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010
Tirán
There’s a thrilling balance here between questing innovation and serenading sounds from Galician piper and flautist Anxo Lorenzo. Supported by...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010
Gift
Although Eliza Carthy has sung with her mother all her life, and recorded and toured with her in Waterson: Carthy,...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010
Helsinki
This is a musical marriage made in heaven between an accordionist (Lepistö) of exceptional elegance and beauty and a bass...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010
Kasatchok Superstar
Cultured Viennese folk don’t much like playing catch-up to Berliners, and with Berlin producing so much good music these days...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010
The Broken Tongue
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
The much talked-about Yiddish revival has one of its most eloquent advocates in the American accord¬ionist and Berlin resident, Daniel...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010
Breton Music for Dummies
This is the first ‘Music for Dummies’ package I’ve come across. But I’ve been enlightened by the brand’s efforts, in...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2010
