Reviews
Live at Celtic Connections
Having spent six years creating and recording The Strathglass Trilogy, his ambitious three-album instrumental tribute to the land where his...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
The Irish Sea Sessions 2012
Like a younger, slightly stroppier cousin to Celtic Connections’ Transatlantic Sessions, the Liverpool Irish Festival’s Irish Sea Sessions bring together...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Estampida
The ‘stampede’ in Victor Herrero’s album title is actually more of a gentle trot around the sweet major and sadder...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Balkan Spirit
In the line of his previous productions, Jordi Savall’s Balkan Spirit covers another area of great musical traditions and intercultural...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Cocktail d’Amour
Every couple of years there surfaces a new and often surprising instance of Robert Crumb’s enduring forays into amateur music-making....
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Brasslands: A Motion Picture Soundtrack
When Miles Davis ventured to the annual brass festival in Guca, in western Serbia, he was astonished. “I didn’t know...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Tu Comu Stai?
These two albums feature different perspectives on Sicilian musical traditions. Trinacria, taking its name from the old Greek name of...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Rendhagyó Prímástalálkozó II
A few years ago there was a great recording of Hungarian music called Primás Parade on Folk Europa records, which...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Tants Caps, Tants Joguets
‘Everybody fancies a nice pork pie,’ claims the chorus of ‘Tiny Kitchen’, sung by a duo of guest vocalists known...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
