Reviews

Sailing Over the 7th String

Tim Edey

You’ll probably be familiar with multi¬instrumentalist Tim Edey from his triumph at the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, where...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014

Nádúr

Clannad

Nádúr delivers the first new material from Clannad in a decade and a half and arrives as the Irish icons...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014

Of Stones and Bones

3 Daft Monkeys

3 Daft Monkeys are a busy band, taking their effervescent Balkan, folk and dub-inflected music to clubs and festivals all...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014

Gabriel Saglio et les Vieilles Pies

Gabriel Saglio et les Vieilles Pies

World music fusions have often resulted in some pointless sonic stews, and Gabriel Saglio, a Toulouse-based artist, has come up...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Barbara (1955-1961)

Barbara

Sixteen years after the death of one of France’s most prestigious singer-songwriters, Monique Cerf (aka Barbara), this is a typically...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Fado: Coimbra-Lisbonne 1949-1961

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Having Alfredo Marceneiro, Amalia Rodrigues, Lucília do Carmo, Fernando Farinha, Maria Teresa de Noronha and Hermínia Silva on one record...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Nipenthí

Krama

The group Krama draw on the musical traditions of both the eastern Mediterranean and the Iberian peninsula to create a...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Vacanti Sugnu China: Sicilian Folksongs

Matilde Politi e Compagnia Bella

Palermo-born Matilde Politi sings of disillusionment and resistance, despair and anger, love and longing, relationships and intimacy; she does so...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Won’t be Long Now

Linda Thompson

On her first album in seven years, one of the most truthful voices in music remains powerful and unyielding, no...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Up Through the Woods

David Gibb & Elly Lucas

From the first to the last note of the second album from this Derbyshire duo – guitarist Gibb and fiddler...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013