Reviews
Hidden Seam
Wild and Undaunted was a striking debut, followed six years later by 2012’s Hunt the Hare EP. Now, at last,...
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Mortissa
Readers may already be familiar with Çigdem Aslan, as she’s lead singer with She’koyokh, the fabulous London-based Balkan klezmer ensemble....
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Mynd
Mynd is the apt title of this excellent album, an Old English word meaning both ‘act of commemoration’ and ‘intellect.’...
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Flourish
Katie McNally is a terrific young fiddle player from Boston, who, devoted to the Scottish and Cape Breton traditions, is...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Lúnasa with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Lúnasa with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Irish national broadcaster RTÉ has a versatile Concert Orchestra that has made something of a happy habit of venturing into...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Portraits
Niamh Dunne is the singer and fiddle player with the highly successful band Beoga and Portraits is her first solo...
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Songs by Geirr Tveitt
This music is fragile, meditative and delicate, with soundscapes leading us into secret, intimate places. The names on the album...
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One and All
For years The Fisherman’s Friends entertained their mates, holidaymakers and most of all themselves, by singing shanties every week in...
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Savor Flamenco
In the late 80s, the Gipsy Kings brought pop-flamenco to the world, becoming a household name and world music’s biggest...
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Oberlin 1968
It’s the 1960s. They wear swinging, Carnaby Street clobber. Their performances are famously forthright and intense, yet funny and entertaining....
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
