Reviews
Kvite Fuglar
Kvite Fuglar (White Bird) is accompanied, in the liner notes, by a short statement from Unni Boksasp: ‘I've written all...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Le Bal Brotto Lopez
The duo of Cyrille Brotto (accordion) and Guillaume Lopez (voice, flute and fifes) were energetic contributors to the French Occitan-language...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Ukronia
This is an album rich in scholarship and serious in intent. Antique songs from Upper Brittany are sung in the...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
Vengeance
Benjamin Biolay has carved himself a niche in the top rank of French popular music, not by genius, but by...
Reviewed in issue July/2013
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
