Reviews

Fomenta

Antonio Castrignanò

Tambourine player, singer and composer Antonio Castrignanò determinedly pursues a cutting-edge makeover of Salento's traditional music. This joint musical adventure...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Tincian

9Bach

Singer Lisa Jên and guitarist Martin Hoyland delivered a superb debut album of traditional Welsh folk songs in 2009, fusing...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

It’ll be Fine

Ceol An Aire

Ceol An Aire are a four-piece ceilidh band from Oban, in the West of Scotland, three of whom are still...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Karja-La

Sväng

A touch of Howlin’ Wolf, hints of anarchic fiddle playing, traditional Baltic runo song, and a jumping minuet: prepare yourself...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Isula Ranni

Unavantaluna

Sharing a Sicilian background, the members of Rome-based Unavantaluna cohesively weave the island's traditional style and repertoire, sung in dialect,...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Grace Bay

Tommy McCarthy & Louise Costello

Offspring of noted figures in their native West Clare and County Galway, the husband-and-wife team of Tommy McCarthy and Louise...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Danzas Brancas

Orquestra Folk SonDeSeu

SonDeSeu, led by veteran composer Rodrigo Romaní, is a sprawling folk orchestra that combines a quintet of gaitas with armies...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Agua en la Boca

María Berasarte

We tend to think of fado as an uncompromising, impassioned, dark-hued genre. María Berasarte was born in San Sebastian, sings...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Louder Than Words

The Henry Girls

After playing together as The Henry Girls for more than a decade, sisters Karen, Lorna and Joleen McLaughlin from County...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

The Moral of the Elephant

Martin & Eliza Carthy

We’ve heard them together in Waterson:Carthy, but this is the first time father and daughter have recorded as a duo,...

Reviewed in issue July/2014