Reviews
Lose an Hour
Fiddle and mandolin player Tom Newell, guitarist Alex Bishop and accordionist Aidan Shepherd are the talented young trio Effra and,...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Kaustinen Live 2003
Thankfully someone had the good sense to blow the dust off some tapes from this fantastic concert performed a decade...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Herself and Myself
Thomas McCarthy is an Irish Traveller who, when he was a child, lived on a site beneath the Westway, the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Sons of the Wind
Soundwalk Collective are self-proclaimed ‘sonic nomads.’ On Sons of the Wind they travel through Ukraine, Moldavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia,...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Male Voices of Fado
As is often the case with compilations, one obsesses not so much about the selection but rather about the missing...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Espíritu del Sol
For all her globetrotting, Amparo Sánchez remains unmistakably Spanish. That deep, gravelly Andalusian voice could come from nowhere else, and...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
The Polska of the Devil and the Parson
On the evidence of this disc Piia Kleemola is a very fine fiddler. The album has grown out of her...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Nothing Can Bring Back the Hour
Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker recently performed their new album in full in London, with a chamber ensemble and guests...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
Coimbra: Fado
This meticulously recorded disc aims to push the boundaries of Coimbra fado in the same way many have already done...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2015
