Reviews
Wood Works
This is the not the first jazz or folk release from a classical string quartet that started life as an...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
London Calling
The occasionally forced-sounding jollity of some klezmer might make it a bit of an acquired taste for many, but this...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
A Handful of Sky
This is a pair of musicians steeped in the folk music and traditions of the south-west – Becki Driscoll comes...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
The Call
In the two years since the release of their duo debut, The Queen's Lover, guitarist Russell and fiddle-player Algar have...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
The Rough Guide to Celtic Music
On the plus side, this is a substantially more satisfying compilation than the now-deleted 2005 collection of the same name....
Reviewed in issue October/2014
Largo da Memória
With Largo da Memória (Coast of Memory), Ribeiro confirms himself as one of the most distinctive artists in the new...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
Amber Sands
An Ireland-based, Austrian-born fiddle player and composer, Schwab's solo debut comes after globe-hopping collaborations with the likes of Austrian string...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
Old Tunes, Dusted Down
It wouldn’t be everyone's idea of a fantastic surprise birthday present. But the Belgian mandolin player Andries Boone is a...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
Wandering Stars: Songs from Gimpel's Lemberg Yiddish Theatre 1906-1910
This extraordinary collection of Yiddish theatre songs, produced by Julian Futter and Mike Aylward, is the outcome of a ten-year...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
