Reviews
Murmurs
Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting & Nancy Kerr
Nancy Kerr just won Folk Singer of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Martin Simpson is no...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
The Spyglass & The Herringbone
In the traditional song ‘John Blunt,’ a couple retire to bed then remember they’ve forgotten to lock their door. They...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Songs of Thessaloniki
Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico
Since the 1990s, Greek soprano Savina Yannatou has established herself as an experimental interpreter of pan-Mediterranean folk songs. Primavera en...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Layers of Ages
Since he left Steeleye Span in 2013, Peter Knight's major musical preoccupation has been Gigspanner. (The name refers to that...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Alasdair Roberts
In the past few years, Roberts has released the double album Wonder Working Stone, recorded an album with Scottish poet...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
The Half-Finished Heaven
Sinikka Langeland has a unique musical voice, whether she's playing her 39-string concert kantele, her smaller folk kantele, or simply...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
El Alma Lastimada y Otros Poemas
In setting the work of 11th-century Andalusian Sephardic poet Solomon Ibn Gabirol to music, the singer and academic Curro Piñana...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Quaranta
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
Quaranta, CGS's new release, celebrates four decades of the group's existence. It is awe-inspiring, stirring and soulful; with an array...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Sirventés: Occitan Protest Songs
Manu Théron, Youssef Hbeisch & Grégory Dargent
Those familiar with the recordings by the Marseille group Lo Còr de la Plana over the past decade will recognise...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Manannan's Cloak
Manannan is the Celtic sea god who protects the Isle of Man from invasion by shrouding it in mist. There...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
