Reviews

Portraits

Niamh Dunne

Niamh Dunne is the singer and fiddle player with the highly successful band Beoga and Portraits is her first solo...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Songs by Geirr Tveitt

Slagr & Camilla Granlien

This music is fragile, meditative and delicate, with soundscapes leading us into secret, intimate places. The names on the album...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

One and All

The Fisherman’s Friends

For years The Fisherman’s Friends entertained their mates, holidaymakers and most of all themselves, by singing shanties every week in...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Savor Flamenco

Gipsy Kings

In the late 80s, the Gipsy Kings brought pop-flamenco to the world, becoming a household name and world music’s biggest...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Oberlin 1968

The Young Tradition

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

Melody

Alaw

‘Welsh folk music has not had the same degree of exposure as its Celtic cousins,’ bemoans Alaw fiddle player Oliver...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Rant

Rant

Rant take their name from an old Scots word for a merry and energetic dance or tune (rather than from...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

No More Peace

Haydamaky

Haydamaky’s roots lie in the Ukraine in the early 90s and the heady spirit of post-Soviet liberation when a vibrant...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

Mud, Blood & Beer

The Bad Shepherds

Not many observers might have expected comedian Adrian Edmondson’s jiggery-jokery folk-punk outfit to last beyond a few gigs, let alone...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013

The Ultimate Guide to Spanish Folk

VARIOUS ARTISTS

A useful corrective to anyone who associates Spain only with flamenco, this CD covers folk music from almost all of...

Reviewed in issue October/2013