Reviews

Sssht

WÖR

‘All tunes written in Antwerp, Ghent, Leuven and other nearby places during the 18th century,' the CD sleeve proudly proclaims....

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Singing Ways to Feel More Junior

Luke Daniels

Since finding his solo mojo with What's Here What's Gone, praised in these very pages for repurposing the kind of...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Vivat Vivere

I Fratelli Tarzanelli

Pablo Golder (diatonic accordion) and Baltazar Montanaro (baritone violin) have been playing together for a decade, touring and recording three...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Dominion

Melrose Quartet

This quartet is the combination of two duos – Nancy Kerr and James Fagan with Richard and Jess Arrowsmith –...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Elbow Room

Danny Diamond

Following 2016's North, a set of bracing duos with Belfast-born fiddler Conor Caldwell, Elbow Room is the second solo offering...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

The Key

Blazin' Fiddles

What's not to love about Blazin' Fiddles? Comprising some of the best fiddlers on the Scottish traditional music scene today...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Virr

Sarah-Jane Summers

Sarah-Jane Summers is a Scottish fiddle and viola player, based in Norway. Many readers will know her as one half...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Belem & the MeKanics

Belem & the MeKanics

Belem are a duo, consisting of diatonic accordionist Didier Laloy and cellist Kathy Adam. Laloy met Walter Hus, who provides...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

The Wife of Urban Law

Peter Knight's Gigspanner

This splendid set from fiddler Peter Knight, with guitarist Roger Flack and percussionist Sacha Trochet, oozes confidence from the start,...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018

Selo Na Okuke / Village Tracks

Kries

The band name (pronounced Kree-ess) means ‘Bonfire’ in old Croatian dialect, but Kries certainly aren't incinerating the old folk songbooks....

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2018