Reviews
Nightshade
This is one of the most spare recordings I have heard in some time. It is, very simply, fiddler Bryony...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Blikkspor
Old Norwegian tradition is exquisitely embodied in the playing of this young virtuoso Hardanger fiddler, who has garnered a pair...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Songs for the Voiceless
During World War I, the officer class attempted to suppress the marching song ‘If You Want to See the General’,...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Strange People
The third release from Portuguese klezmer quintet Melech Mechaya achieves what all klezmer bands set out to do – to...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Fiesta
Chico Bouchikhi co-founded the Gipsy Kings and wrote and arranged many of their 80s hits, before leaving in 1992 to...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
The Elusive Highland Beauty
With their debut funded by a Kickstarter campaign, The Elephant Sessions describe themselves as a ‘neo-trad quintet forged in the...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Kathryn Tickell & The Side
The brilliant Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell has worked with classical musicians before, composing for the Nash Ensemble, percussionist Joanna MacGregor...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Operette
Marseille's favourite sons, Moussu T e lei Jovents, finally get round to their town's classic traditions. Marseille's operette music hall...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Cambridge Folk Festival: Celebrating 50 Years
Not, as you might have supposed, a track from each year of the Cambridge Folk Festival's 50-year history, but a...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
Stories Still Untold
Ewan McLennan continues his evolution into a major figure on the Scottish folk scene with his third album. Stories Still...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
