Reviews

Child Ballads

Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer

There's power in the aoss-traffic of Americans interpreting British traditional music, and vice versa. Bob Dylan's big early songs took...

Reviewed in issue March/2013

Mancunia

Ducie

Mancunia draws on Celtic traditions but with Eastern European, Indian, flamenco and funk flavours stirred in from Andy Dinan and...

Reviewed in issue March/2013

Dunrobin Place

Matheu Watson

It's hard not to sound like a broken record when talking about the albums of today's technically gifted, highly adept...

Reviewed in issue March/2013

Møya og Myten

Eplemøya Songlag

This is traditional music sung by a trio whose backgrounds are in folk, jazz and improvisation. And it works brilliantly....

Reviewed in issue March/2013

Benvinguts al Llarg Viatge

Txarango

Catalan band Txarango have been hailed as the grupo revelación, or next big thing, in the Spanish press. Taking their...

Reviewed in issue March/2013

Polka V

Frigg

This is a five-star album. Now get out there, put your dancing shoes on and spend hour after hour with...

Reviewed in issue March/2013

3 for Joy

Maddy Prior with Hannah James & Giles Lewin

This is a true meeting of generations. Maddy Prior has a 40-year career behind her. Violinist and piper Giles Lewin...

Reviewed in issue March/2013

Roots of the Banjo Tree

We Banjo 3

“What's the definition of perfect pitch?” goes the old joke to which the jocular riposte is “Throwing a banjo into...

Reviewed in issue March/2013

A Bright Star Has Risen

Perunika Trio

There has always been some tension between Bulgaria as a modern industrialised nation – a member of the European Union,...

Reviewed in issue March/2013

Slečena Koža

Brina

Slovene singer Brina Vogelnik and her band have been quietly doing very good work in extending the musical language of...

Reviewed in issue March/2013