Reviews
Gipsy Rhumba
Andalucía's connection with Gypsy culture via flamenco is famous. Less well-known is the emergence, during the early 1960s, of a...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
No 2 Greepe
This is the second album from the Campbells of Greepe – hailed as one of the great singing families in...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Thamesis
If you like your folk music sophisticated, self-confident and highly original, read on. The third album from this über-cool London...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Best of Mariza
This really is exactly what it says: highlights from the career of the extraordinary fado singer who released her debut...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Calaita Flamenco Son
Two years of intense gigging is very much in evidence on this confident flamenco fusion debut. Calaita Flamenco Son was...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Octave Fiddle – Baritone Violin
A fiddler of considerable skill and dexterity, Gavin Pennycook is also distinguished by his choice of instrument here: the baritone...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Fados de Amor
Rodrigo Costa Félix's second album is a compendium of ruminations on women and love. It's a somewhat old-fashioned affair in...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Blitzmash
Despite their ambition to remain at the cutting edge of innovative world jazz, the Amsterdam Klezmer Band has always been...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Silent Folk
Since the 1980s, Groupa have been at the vanguard of progressive Nordic folk, their boldness influencing a whole generation of...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Two Worlds
On Two Worlds, bass player, singer and composer Benjy Fox-Rosen creates an song cycle from the large body of work...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
