Reviews
Divine
Maria Tanase is often referred to as ‘the Romanian Piaf’: both were distinctive vocalists who took a local vernacular music...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Bones of Contention
From the streets of Glasgow, this trio – guitarist and singer John Langan, Alastair Caplin on fiddle, and double bassist...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Mayday
In the middle of this excellent album two songs exemplify its sophistication. In ‘The Factory Girl’, a woman rejects the...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Kjeringe i Snodrevet
The langeleik is one of the more unusual members of an instrumental family that can be loosely described as ‘plank...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Anthology of Moravian Folk Music Vol 3: Straznicko a Kyjovsko
The first albums here are the final two volumes of the four-part Anthology of Moravian Folk Music. Moravia has very...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
The Thrush in the Storm
It's been five years since the last studio offering from Irish supergroup Dervish, which makes The Thrush in the Storm...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Eureka!
Barcelona has long been a hotbed of musical experimentation, producing an almost ridiculously long list of top artists from rumba...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
The Liberty to Choose
The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, compiled by Ralph Vaughan Williams and A L Lloyd, was published in 1959....
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Welcome to the Family
Bosnian guitarist Igor Sekulović grew up in Banja Luka, loving the sevdah music his mother and aunts sang. He ended...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Vagrant Stanzas
The inspiration for Vagrant Stanzas came, according to Simpson, from sessions at the kitchen table with his neighbour Richard Hawley,...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
