Reviews
Like a Bird or Spirit, Not a Face
You take the world's foremost female throat-singer and the rhythm section from Tinariwen, put them in the studio with Grammy-winning...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Happy Machine
The high-energy high jinks of this group from Bosnia and Herzegovina work a sort of reverse Balkanisation. Which is to...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Everything Sacred
Fifty years ago the Incredible String Band emerged from the Scottish folk scene to create an extraordinary fusion of folk,...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
Clarion
Paul Hutchinson, half of the fabulous Belshazzar's Feast, teams up here with clarinettist Karen Wimhurst from the world of contemporary...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
Woven Landscapes
Karavan Sarai is a band led by composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Narayan Sijan, who plays a variety of Turkish and...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
Lost
For this new recording with her partner Graham Fitkin, Scottish harpist Ruth Wall employs both Gaelic wire-strung harp and concert...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
New Cities
New Cities is the third album from a collective exploring the possibilities that emerge from adapting source material from the...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
Os
Os opens with a familiar tune turned on its head. ‘See, the Conqu’ring Hero Comes!’, Handel's triumphant, war-celebrating melody becomes...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
Re-Think
Billy Hill with Ramon Goose & Friends
Sixteen-year-old fiddler Billy Hill has been performing at folk festivals since he was nine, supporting the likes of Eliza Carthy...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
We Are Going to Bremen to be Musicians
Geoff Berner is an accordionist, singer and songwriter. This album quickly establishes that he's Jewish and Canadian – both subjects...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
