Reviews
Black Sea Fire
Several things about this record will make the curious listener well disposed to it from the off. Firstly, despite its...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Where The Rivers Meet
Joik and jazz are two words that describe Where The Rivers Meet comes from. While both styles resemble each other...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Trepanation
If you haven't come across the Finnish label Aania before and you're interested in well-produced, well-performed interesting music with a...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
El Sentido del Aire
Flamenco guitarist Juan Carmona has created yet another beautiful and exciting disc, full of ideas and imagination. Carmona's way of...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
The Best of Kathryn Tickell
Kathryn Tickell started playing the Northumbrian smallpipes when she was nine. These are bellows blown with, unlike other bagpipes, a...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
France: An Anthology of Traditional Music
It's become a cliché when writing about cultural diversity in France to trot out the old de Gaulle maxim about...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
The Glamoury
A powerful contemporary approach to the traditional ballad, from which she fashions a vivid and poetic set of original songs,...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
O Skaros: Flute Music
Three distinct pastoral flutes, made of wood or reed, h a ve traditionally been played in Greece: the floyera and...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Growing Up
I remember descri– bing Tsuumi Sound System's last album (reviewed in #49) as a work of genius: a lesson in...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Yn Fyw
This is a heart-warming disc. It's the recording of a performance in Caernarfon – the heart of Welsh Wales –...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
