Reviews
A Cimbalomprímás
The title of this album means ‘The Cimbalom Primás’ or bandleader and the player in question is Bálint Tárkány-Kovács, one...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
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The Band of Gică Diricel from Dobroteşti, Teleorman
This band come from Teleorman County in the south of Romania, about 90km west of Clejani, home of Taraf de...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Like Nightingales in the Spring
The north Albanian town of Shkodër, lying between lake and mountains, embraces multiple cultures and histories. While it was still...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Lady Sings the Balkan Blues
Mostar Sevdah Reunion are a Bosnian institution. Emerging out of the ruins of war-torn Bosnia in 1998, tending the traditions...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Let Me Out
War is not always amenable to great art. Feelings of horror, loss and grief give rise to a sense that...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
All of This Is Chance
Fresh from signing off Peaky Blinders with a cover of Bob Dylan's ‘All the Tired Horses’, O’Neill returns to her...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Ahol az Ökör is Bort Iszik!
Magos are a fine Hungarian folk band playing authentic village music, mostly from Romanian Transylvania. They and their violinist Csaba...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
The Playhouse Sessions
‘How should I behave when I have a violin in my hand?’ asks the dazzling Norwegian violinist Bjarte Eike in...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2023
Murmuration
Coracle are accordionist Paul Hutchinson, formerly of the beloved Belshazzar’s Feast with the late Paul Sartin, plus singer and multi-instrumentalist...
Reviewed in issue January/February/2023
