Reviews
Guerra
Spirited trumpeter, composer and director Cesare Dell'Anna's GirodiBanda is a multifaceted beast, comprising more than 30 musicians including some leading...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Music is the Most Beautiful Language in the World: Yiddisher Jazz in London's East End 1920s-1950s
Compiled by historian Alan Dein, Music is the Most Beautiful Language in the World is both a historic document, chronicling...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Prodigal Son
Released in 2007, this album is hailed by many as Simpson's finest hour. Recorded at the Pure Studio the year...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Noró (Algunhas Músicas do Norte)
Xabier Díaz & Adufeiras de Salitre
Xabier Díaz is a restless and eternally curious researcher of Galicia's traditional music. Famous for his work with groups Berrogüetto...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Working Hands
Shetland Islander Jenna Reid is often seen involved with Blazin' Fiddles and fiddle quartet Rant, but here she has regrouped...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
GALW
You've heard freeform jazz. What about freeform, avant-garde, New Age, Welsh folk music? This debut from the duo Sianed Jones and...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Wavelength
Bene & Cormac are Glaswegian fiddler Benedict Morris, newly anointed as BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the Year,...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Gwyn Glân Beibl Budr
Gwyn Glân Beibl Budr opens with ‘Myn Mair’, a prayer that is at least 500 years old, sung on the...
Reviewed in issue May/2019
Leaves That Fly
Leaves That Fly is the debut album from Glasgow-based Kim Richards and a beautiful and heartfelt release it is too....
Reviewed in issue May/2019
