Reviews
The Beautiful Old: Turn of the Century Songs
Conceived by producers Paul Marsteller and Gabe Rhodes, The Beautiful Old, has a truly beautiful concept: to breathe back to...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Whip Jamboree
York six-piece Blackbeard’s Tea Party formed in 2009: first as a busking unit, then a ceilidh band and now as...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
The Bone Orchard
Gavin Davenport is a folk singer gifted with a fine voice warmed by the northern vowels of Yorkshire, and the...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Easy and Bold
The label Veteran specialises in English, Scottish and Irish traditional folk, with a focus on the source singers you might...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Bigger Than Home
The hang – the flying saucer-shaped Swiss-made percussive instrument that, although played by palms and fingers, sounds not unlike a...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
The Cook, the Clown, the Monk & the Accordionist
London-based Italian musician Maurizio Minardi ventures here into the porous terrain that lies somewhere between folk, classical, jazz and improvisation....
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Holts and Hovers
Three Cane Whale comprise Spiro member Alex Vann, Get The Blessing’s trumpeter Pete Judge and guitarist Paul Bradley of the...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Oes i Oes
Cass Meurig and Nial Cain have worked together for a number of years now. Their intimate and sensitive renditions of...
Reviewed in issue June/2013
Quercus
Quercus (June Tabor, Iain Ballamy, Huw Warren)
Quercus means ‘oak’ in Latin, and the oak is steeped in folklore from root to crown. So is the music...
Reviewed in issue June/2013
You Have Already Gone to the Other World
The New Mexico-based duo of Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost have spent the last year touring their live score for...
Reviewed in issue June/2013
