Reviews
Floating Letters
I’ve waxed lyrical about Tsuumi Sound System in the past, praising them for their brilliant approach to bringing together Finnish...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
Greek Rhapsody: Instrumental Music from Greece, 1905-1956
Greek Rhapsody is an organic, if indirect, extension of a 2005 collaboration between British musician and archivist Tony Klein and...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
Fifty Verses
In 2010 Nancy Kerr & James Fagan (winners of Best Duo at the BBC Folk Awards) found life on their...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
Isbrytaren
If there is any rivalry between the nations Sweden and Norway, it’s been set aside by this duo for 50...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
Hotline
This is an ambitious and impressive suite, as much jazz as it is folk. As a member of Lau, and...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
Cyprus Well
Cyprus Well is a terrace of small houses in Launceston, a town just west of the Tamar, the river between...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
The Rough Guide to the Music of the Mediterranean
Though quite pleasant listening, this CD isn’t a comprehensive cross-section of Mediterranean music, but rather a disparate collection of genres...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
Week of Pines
On her debut album, Aberystwyth-born Georgia Ruth plays harp, piano, reed organ and bells, and her band features multiple guitars,...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
Reise
If further proof were needed that some of the best new music inspired by tradition is currently coming out of...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
None the Wiser
If you're looking for one of the finest contemporary poet-singers in England, look no further than the man with an...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
