Reviews
Eternal Return
Taiko drumming is punctuated by chants and yells, encouraging players to perform with maximum energy. This commanding collection celebrates 20...
Reviewed by Vanessa Villalobos in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Won’t be Long Now
On her first album in seven years, one of the most truthful voices in music remains powerful and unyielding, no...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Up Through the Woods
From the first to the last note of the second album from this Derbyshire duo – guitarist Gibb and fiddler...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Virgin Islands: Quelbe & Calypso 1956-60
Following Caribbean classics compilations from Jamaica, Bermuda and Trinidad, one on the Virgin Islands musical history could present an intriguing...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
At the Heart of it All
Capercaillie’s Donald Shaw has recently observed that, even when you’ve been at the forefront of contemporary Gaelic music for 30...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
The Full English
This album is one segment of an ambitious project from the EFDSS (English Folk Dance and Song Society), drawing together...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Zanzibara 7: Sikinde vs Ndekule
This fine addition to the confusingly titled Zanzibara series focuses on two of the leading bands from the astonishingly fertile...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Hidden Seam
Wild and Undaunted was a striking debut, followed six years later by 2012’s Hunt the Hare EP. Now, at last,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
