Reviews
Tunes from the Trenches: Songs from the First and Second World Wars
This kit-bag full of old songs springs from John Kirkpatrick's feeling that we get nearer to what the soldiers felt...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2015
Sefardix
Oles Brothers & Jorgos Skolias
The concept behind this album is intriguing: the reimagining of Sephardic songs in a setting for drums and double bass;...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2015
Hendrix Songs
Now here's an intriguing notion: a founding member of the much-loved folk big band Bellowhead reinterprets 12 classic Jimi Hendrix...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2015
Incoming!
Riot Jazz Brass Band are one of the UK's foremost new brass bands. Taking the template of the pit bands...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2015
Imbarca
Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra
Barcelona is famous as a music city largely for the rumba flamenco (or rumba catalana) sound of Peret and the...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2015
Curlicue
This album brings together two talented British instrumentalists, both of them graduates of the Folk and Traditional Music course at...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: December/2015
Touristes
Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin
The Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and the 25-year-old American singer Julia Easterlin met in New York in 2014 when...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2015
Shifted
It's evident from the outset, clearly audible in the three-part close vocal harmonies, that Harpeth Rising are three young ladies...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: December/2015
Houmet Paradis
James Dumbelton with Andy Clarke
Named after an islet off Guernsey that was bought anonymously by locals and administered by the National Trust, Houmet Paradis...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2015
