Reviews
The Art of the Lyra
Talented composer-musician Stelios Petrakis emerged from Ross Daly's teaching workshops in 1999. Daly, a Crete resident and multi-instrumentalist had himself...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
The Ballads of Child Migration: Songs for Britain's Child Migrants
There's an impressive list of musicians here; the songwriters include Jez Lowe, Julie Matthews & Chris While, Boo Hewerdine, John...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Mountain Meeting
Bridget Marsden & Leif Ottosson
Some records are special from the very first moment. Mountain Meeting opens with a single fiddle tune, a burbling figure...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Pandemonium: The Essential Bellowhead
The bad news is that, after 11 years, the 11 members of the great English folk big-band Bellowhead are going...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Sibling Revelry
Multi-instrumental sisters three, Máire and Mairéad Ní Chathasaigh and Nollaig Casey all have long, illustrious solo careers behind them. Here...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Already Home
Anna and Rowan Rheingans were born in Sheffield and grew up in the Peak District, daughters of a violin-maker whose...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Synaesthesia
Synaesthesia is a new release from the Lush Spa/ECC partnership, led by Simon Emmerson, who's lived in Dorset for the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
In Sciô Ton
One of Italy's many musical treasures, trallalero is an urban group-harmony singing from Genoa, organised around at least eight singers...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
Gaelré
Gaelré sees Belfast's Gráinne Holland delivering a spellbinding follow-up to her 2011 debut Teanga na nGael. Reunited with arranger and...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2016
