Reviews
Trikitixaren Historia Txiki Bat
Kepa Junkera will be 50 in April. He has been playing trikitixa, the effervescent diatonic accordion music of the Basques,...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Lo Testament
In the UK, you’re unlikely to hear ancient music outside of interludes in Shakespeare's plays or themed medieval banquets. But...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
When the Day is on the Turn
Formed in December 2013, Edinburgh-based, Irish-Hungarian outfit Dallahan arrived on Scotland's live circuit with all cylinders firing. This is their...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Tomorrow Will Follow Today
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
A young man refuses to sleep with his uncle's wife. She stabs herself and blames the boy. His uncle has...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
The Search for Five Finger Frank
This mammoth set – 27 tracks in all – aims to rescue from obscurity the memory of Leeds folk-song collector...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
Tradition 2.1
Embedded in ‘Iskitzeko Aldian’, the track right at the heart of this album, is part of a radio broadcast from...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
Mount the Air
Two years in the making, in their own studio in an old granary building in Northumberland, this utterly enthralling album...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
Of Lovers, Gamblers and Parachute Skirts
Taraf de Haidouks exploded out of Romania as soon as communism ended, introducing Balkan Gypsy music to the West; their...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
