Reviews
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
Inside Llewyn Davis
If there is a precedent for promoting a soundtrack in a similar way to the campaign for the forthcoming movie...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Kula Kulluk Yakisir M1
Kayhan Kalhor & Erdal Erzincan
Iranian kamancheh player Kayhan Kalhor and Turkish saz player Erdal Erzincan are both fantastic traditional musicians with a taste for...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Sweet Nostalgia
‘I take comfort in being able to express fragments of the past through songs of old love and sounds of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Fists of Violets
Record store categories are disappearing along with the retail stores that made use of them. And that may in some...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Mortissa
Readers may already be familiar with Çigdem Aslan, as she’s lead singer with She’koyokh, the fabulous London-based Balkan klezmer ensemble....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
