Reviews
Through the Eyes of the Sun
Bulgarian singer Gergana Dimitrova will be familiar to many as a member of the women’s vocal ensemble, the Eva Quartet....
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Tales from a Forgotten City
The forgotten city of this CD’s title is, of course, Mostar itself, once a tolerant city of Christians, Muslims and...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Knee-Deep in Heaven
Led by fiddler Janusz Prusinowski, this trio are the leading group behind the revival of traditional music in Poland. The...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Mezo: Field
Serbian Hungarian Félix Lajkô is one of Europe’s most remarkable violin players – a true virtuoso, but a quixotic and...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Hirta Songs
Alasdair Roberts & Robin Robertson
In 2007, Scottish poet Robin Robertson made the long, arduous sea voyage to St Kilda. Not all of him returned....
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Cerdd Dannau
Welsh poetry is famously complex, its success depending on the strict deployment of stress, rhyme and alliteration. Welsh traditional music...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Lay Your Dark Low
This four-piece really do knock out a great song. They’re tight, confident and manage to make folk music sound contemporary...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
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
