Reviews

Pole Star

Spiro

Pole Star is the third album by Spiro released by Real World Records since the quartet from Bristol signed to...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Live in Calstock

Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin

Could it be that such a thing as a Devonshire sound is appearing in English folk music? This first live...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Highland Strands

Kevin Macleod

Highland Strands is a rare beast; an atmospheric recording that captures something of the spirit of the very best pub...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Őszi Vázlatok (Live)

Tárkány Müvek

The Hungarian group Tárkány Müvek, led by cimbalom player Bálint Tárkány-Kovács have been going about five years, playing inventive folk-meets-jazz...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

Código de Barros

El Naán

The roots music of the Iberian peninsula runs the whole gamut, from Celtic-inflected Galician piping to a multitude of flamenco...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014

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