Reviews
Radial
Griselda Sanderson plays the nyckelharpa, a keyed Swedish fiddle instrument with sympathetic strings that dates back 600 years. A short...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Upsurge
Recorded in a live setting, Upsurge, the new album from the Scott Wood Band, proves the group to be a...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Conflict Tourism
The British duo's fourth album has a strong thread of stories, settings and characters. It's a folk-pop concept album with...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Urram
Karen Matheson's first solo album of exclusively Gaelic songs is remarkable for its unexpected and surprising musical settings. Matheson has...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Tunes from the Trenches: Songs from the First and Second World Wars
This kit-bag full of old songs springs from John Kirkpatrick's feeling that we get nearer to what the soldiers felt...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Sefardix
Oles Brothers & Jorgos Skolias
The concept behind this album is intriguing: the reimagining of Sephardic songs in a setting for drums and double bass;...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Imbarca
Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra
Barcelona is famous as a music city largely for the rumba flamenco (or rumba catalana) sound of Peret and the...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Curlicue
This album brings together two talented British instrumentalists, both of them graduates of the Folk and Traditional Music course at...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Houmet Paradis
James Dumbelton with Andy Clarke
Named after an islet off Guernsey that was bought anonymously by locals and administered by the National Trust, Houmet Paradis...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
Parachute
It's hard to pinpoint what exactly makes Trio Dhoore's music their own: what makes their art distinctive, or even identifiably...
Reviewed in issue December/2015
