Reviews
Releasing the Leaves
Enthusiasts of English folk music will perhaps already be familiar with Dorset-based duo Ninebarrow. Their 2014 debut, While the Blackthorn...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Palimpsest
For their third album, Three Cane Whale eschew their previous in-the-field approach to recording – an 18th-century Bristol church for...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Swirling Sands
Dylan Fowler, Ian Melrose, Soïg Sibéril
Similar coastal landscapes adorn the sleeves of veteran Scottish guitarist Ian Melrose's two new records, both on the German guitar...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Anthology of Traditional Folk Music in Moravia 6: Love & Wedding Songs
These are the final releases in the excellent Czech label Indies Scope's survey of Moravian music. While the first four...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
The Journey Continues: Fellside at 40
This release comprises three discs, the first two concentrating on the ten years since the Fellside label's previous compilation Landmarks,...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Madre: The Hypnotic Dance's Time
Born in Latium's historic town of Sora, the Italian-French singer and diatonic accordionist Giuliano Gabriele here presents his second album,...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
Reprobates
‘The Steam Arm Man’, which opens this new set from the rock’n’ceilidh barnstormers from York, sports a Black Sabbath-style riff...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
Belenzuka Fallen from the Sky
Tomka Paunovic, Dragica Žunic, Miloljub Šakovic & Miroljub Raketic
The two pairs of singers on this uncompromising recording – one male and one female – come from south-eastern Serbia...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
Aheym: Homeward
Each member of this trio brings serious klezmer credentials with them. Merlin Shepherd's clarinet playing can also be heard with...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
