Reviews
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
At Dawn of Day
At Dawn of Day, the second album from Barluath, a still-fresh, still-developing new addition to the Scots music scene, is...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Despite the Dark
The opener ‘Dark Reel’ is an ambitious and blistering introduction to an album that is moody, earthy, haunting and passionate,...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
The Widening Gyre
Recorded in Nashville and fully funded by fans through pledgemusic, The Widening Gyre sees the venerable sextet finding new creative...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Gisela João
There is an infallible method to tell apart a remarkable singer from a merely very good one. Let's call it...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Finno-Balkan Voices
Eight female vocalists – four Finnish, and four Bulgarian – meet here in a collaboration that stems from a course...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
