Reviews

The Elizabethan Session

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Soon after the various artists who collaborated on The Elizabethan Session conceived their evocation of the first Elizabethan age, they...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Fiddle Music

Danny Diamond

Danny Diamond's self-released Fiddle Music is an assured solo debut for the Dublin-born fiddler, who is a field recording officer...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Som Riu

Txarango

This is the third album by an octet from the Barcelona region. They have risen, in half a dozen years,...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Gipsy Burek Orkestar

Gipsy Burek Orkestar

Gipsy Burek Orkestar made a good impression at WOMEX 2013. They describe themselves as ‘blending the exuberant drive of a...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

In Flanders Fields

Coope, Boyes & Simpson

From the long-established English vocal harmony trio comes an homage to the music and song of World War I, one...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Le Silence de l’Exode

Yom

French clarinettist Yom has made seven albums that reflect an eclectic spirit that defies categorisation, underlining the malleability of his...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Embalo

Liana

When Liana first became known to a wider audience, it did not take an expert to spot a young girl...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Vintage Balkan Beats

VARIOUS ARTISTS

While this compilation's title cheekily refers to that club craze for remixes of Balkan brass tunes, the recordings here are...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Wood Works

The Danish String Quartet

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

London Klezmer Quartet

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