Reviews

Masters of Their Craft

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Home to an artist roster that has shaped the sound of contemporary Irish folk music, Tara Music (formerly Tara Records)...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014

Fabian Holland

Fabian Holland

The real challenge of folk music in a post-industrial society is how to make it relevant. Fabian Holland is a...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014

Gipsy Manifesto

Boban & Marko Markovic Orkestar

Balkan brass bands still wallop their bass drums with the same switches used by Ottoman marching bands, the kind Haydn...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014

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