Reviews
Medea
Composed to accompany performances of Euripides’ bloody revenge tragedy Medea at the EpÍdavros and Athens Festivals in 2011, Eleni Karaindrou’s...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014
This year’s Radio 2 Folk Awards night at the Royal Albert Hall featured some priceless moments: a duet between Martin...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Never Forget
Vocal trio The Young’uns demonstrated a flair for bringing both traditional and modern stories to life on their 2012 album...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Weltensprung
Weltensprung is a spine-tingling contemporary look at Bavarian folk music. The title itself translates roughly to ‘world jump.’ With this...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Wide Open
Following his recent collaboration with Jarlath Henderson on their 2013 release Air-fix, Ross Ainslie delivers another fine set of mainly...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
All Life is Here
Harp and a Monkey, as the abrupt band name suggests, are a plain-speaking Lancastrian folk group. Frontman Martin Purdy tells...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
El Baile de las Horas
Marina Abad was the powerful, husky-voiced fulcrum of flamenco, hip-hop, Latin fusioneers Ojos de Brujo until they disbanded in 2011....
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Como la Luna y el Sol
There is now a legion of different approaches to Sephardic song but two predominate. There’s the scholarly, supposedly authentic manner,...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Les Tzitzíkia: Les Cigales
Katerina Fotinaki’s debut CD recapitulates in part a Greek musical experiment from 1995 by Nena Venetsanou called Ikones, in which...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
Galiza
Kepa Junkera is a wonderful player of trikitixa, the traditional dance music of the Basque country, which he squeezes out...
Reviewed in issue June/2014
