Reviews
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
Live in Vienna
The death of The Dubliners’ ‘Banjo’ Barney McKenna in 2012 saw the surviving band members – Sean Cannon, Eamonn Campbell...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Borderlands
Borderlands crosses boundaries in two ways. Haddo is the duo of husband and wife Nicky and Will Pound: she hails...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Sleep Sound
Originally commissioned as part of Celtic Connections New Voices in 2012, Sleep Sound marks the Edinburgh-based harpist Rutherford's solo debut...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
The Long Road and the Far Horizons
It's safe to say fiddler Gavin Marwick is spoiling us. His latest release is a double-CD of 27 tracks, comprising...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Révület
These two discs represent new approaches to Hungarian folk by leading figures on the Budapest scene. Slovak-born and classically trained,...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
