Reviews
Bahto Delo Delo
Marin ‘Tsagoi’ Sandu is an accordionist and singer from that heartland of Romanian Gypsy music, Clejani. Indeed he's the son...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
Songs of the Spanish Civil War Vols 1 & 2
Just as Western countries have today banned their subjects from travelling to fight in Syria, in the 1930s the US...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
The Chuck Norris Project
The track titles of this sixth album from the Edinburgh-based Americana collective read like a back-catalogue of dodgy Hollywood action...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
Silk & Stone
Amira Medunjanin is one of the great voices of the Balkans. A decade ago her album Rosa was a fantastic...
Reviewed in issue March/2015
Gambit
Like many a young musician, the melodeon player and singer Ollie King also teaches. One of the subjects he offers...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Our Routes
It 's somewhat quaint in late 2014 to get a new album that faithfully treads the Balkan beats formula popular...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Old England Grown New
He has supported the likes of Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick and Chris Wood, worked on performance pieces with storytellers, fronted...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Tamo Doli
Dunja Knebl is one of Croatia ’ s most experienced singers of traditional music; for the past two decades...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Cabinet of Curiosities
As amiable and unpretentious as they are hugely talented and entertaining, The Hut People are accordionist Sam Pirt and percussionist...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
