Reviews
Why the Mountains are Black: Primeval Greek Village Music 1907-1960
In early 1980s Epirus (Greece), I learned of a University of Washington musicologist engaged in fieldwork for a PhD on...
Reviewed in issue May/2016
Bedlam
Kelly Oliver is a musician growing in ambition and confidence. Her first album This Land was very much a solo...
Reviewed in issue May/2016
The Space Between
For their new inter-Celtic album, the five-piece Mabon, led by the accordion and voice of Jamie Smith, enlisted Jim Moray...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Yet We Sing
Germany has enjoyed a long-standing love affair with Celtic music, and Cara, featuring four of Germany's finest traditional musicians and...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
La Vida Llega
This album heralds a double return: Pepe Luis’ reappearance after his time as singer with the flamenco-pop band La Barbería...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
City of the Future: Yiddish Songs from the Former Soviet Union
Yale Strom is one of the most adventurous personalities on the American klezmer scene. He's not only recorded over a...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Legend of the Bulgarian Clarinet
This wonderful selection, devoted to clarinettist Georgi Koev (born 1910), has been recovered by Canadian Yves Moreau from the tape...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
In the Round
Leveret recorded their first album in a day. In the Round makes that seem extravagant – it was recorded in...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
