Reviews
365: Volume 2
Reveal Records issued Volume 1 in the spring of 2018, with Lau's fiddler joining forces with jazz pianist Kit Downes...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2019
Painted
Joe Broughton's Conservatoire Folk Ensemble
Painted is a kind of folk thesis: a powerful argument that all the world's musical styles comprise a patchwork we...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2017
Rivages
Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki
This is a very beautiful album of accordion and guitar. French accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier has appeared on several ECM albums,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2020
The Art of the Vietnamese Zither: Đàn Tranh
Tri Nguyen's mission is to bring the đàn tranh (zither) to new audiences by combining Vietnamese traditions with Western classical...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: May/2019
The Songs of Edward Capern the Postman Poet
Edward Capern only had four months of schooling. He lived much of his life in the north Devon town of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/2017
The Life & Times of James ‘The Rooster’ Corcoran’
Vincent Cross is a descendent of Irish gang leader James Corcoran, who left Dublin for New York in 1844, and...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2020
The Hindustani Jazz Sextet Live at the UCLA
This live record is a charming time capsule, taking us back to the swinging 60s and the first fumblings of...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: August/September/2022
The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo
Steve Martin’s talent as a clawhammer and Scruggs-style banjoist fares on this album much as his talent as a comic...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: Jan/Feb/2010
The Holy Mother – Madhuvanti Pal Plays the Rudra Veena
This album is a treat. It isn’t often you get the chance to hear new recordings of the rudra veena,...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2023
Words of a Fiddler’s Daughter: Rúnian
The Ciderhouse Rebellion with Jessie Summerhayes
Anyone who has spent time on Lindisfarne Island off Britain’s Northumbrian coast in the wintertime knows just how exposed it...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: January/2021
