Reviews
Cimbalomduó
The subtitle of this disc – ‘Cimbalom for Four Hands’ – is slightly misleading. It suggests cimbalom duets on one...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
The Desperate Battle of the Birds
The second album from one of today's top young Scottish folk acts shares its arresting name with a well-known piobaireachd...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Their First Album
The first four albums by the Incredible String Band summon up the spirit of the far side of the 60s...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Skir
As all the tracks here are instrumental, you can only imagine what lies behind them. Thankfully, we have the short...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
ABCDEFG
The Chumbas are never short of a thing or two to say and on their latest album it’s music itself...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Salamander
Salamander boasts not one but two conflagration– related tunes. The title-track was written by Bellevue Rendezvous’ fiddle player, Gavin Marwick,...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Fiesta Balkanica
World music compilations tend to fall into two categories: a selection put together with deep knowledge of a particular region...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Folk Awards 2010
Folk is a music built for hard times. So it’s entirely fitting that Show of Hands’ protest at recent outrages...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
Exiles Return
The Waterford singer with crystalline tones, Karan Casey, and the Dublin guitar maestro John Doyle both made names for themselves...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2010
