Reviews

In a Box

Megson

The name of husband-and-wife duo Megson is now familiar on the English folk circuit. Their first studio album in four...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Music from Romania

VARIOUS ARTISTS

These recordings were made by the celebrated musicologist Deben Bhattacharya in 1965, the year Nicolae Ceauşescu came to power. It...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Live at 10: The 10th Anniversary Concert

Beoga

A decade after their debut album, County Antrim's Beoga are celebrating with a lively and satisfyingly long anniversary CD and...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

House of Jacks

Blair Dunlop

Frontman for the Albion Band and winner of a BBC Radio 2 Horizon Folk Award in 2013, Dunlop brings a...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Inter-Celtic

Carlos Núñez

Is Galician piper Carlos Núñez the most enthusiastic, optimistic, energetic musician on earth? From the first blow on this 16-track...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Gipsy Rhumba

VARIOUS ARTISTS

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

The Campbells of 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

Mishaped Pearls

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

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

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