Reviews
From the Rich Dark Earth
Singer and violinist Abraham Brody was born and raised in the US, but for the last five years has been...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Dead Man's Dance
Guitarist Dylan Fowler, accordionist Jamie Smith and violinist Oliver Wilson-Dickson have all worked together on projects such as The Devil's...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
A Day a Month
It is hard to believe that A Day a Month is the first collaboration of those ubiquitous stalwarts of the...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Windrose
A fair few classical string quartets – most recently the Danish String Quartet – have developed traditional music side projects....
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Sven Nyhus Kvintett
The 85-year-old Sven Nyhus is a major figure in the history of Norwegian traditional music: a fiddler, composer and musicologist...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Strangers
The Teesside vocal trio of Sean Cooney, David Eagle and Michael Hughes have captured hearts – and awards – with...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Inventions
Their first two albums drew from the collections of Playford's The English Dancing Master and others, bringing dances and tunes...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Simplify
At a time when technology is turning human beings into human ‘doings’ in a relentless struggle for power and money,...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Pretty Peggy
The second album from the Cornish-based singer, Britain's Got Talent finalist and BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner develops the...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
Dañs!
Take a voice steeped in Breton tradition, team it with two musicians from a younger generation, and have another look...
Reviewed in issue November/2017
