Reviews
Diversions Vol 3: Songs from the Shipyards
In a remarkably prolific year for The Unthanks, this album follows hard on the heels of their mighty collaboration with...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
LIVE – Olympiahalle München
LaBrassBanda hail from Bavaria, and this homecoming concert found them playing to 12,000 fans. You read that correctly: not 1,200...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
The Rough Guide to the Music of Scandinavia
This compilation takes a broad view of Scandinavia, going beyond the usual Norway/Sweden/ Denmark configuration and taking in fellow Nordic...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Blight and Blossom
Leader of the new-generation Albion Band, son of folk¬rock guv’nor Ashley Hutchings and the child actor who played the young...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Bande Italiane
Look at a map of southern Europe, think raucous brass bands and you’re probably drawn to the Balkans – Serbia...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Z is for Zykopops
This sounds like a half-baked student project that shouldn’t have gone beyond the confines of Zagreb University. It’s a shame,...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Affric
Chisholm was born and raised in Inverness, in the Scottish Highlands. He learned under the late, great fiddler player, composer...
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Wake the Union
The latest album from Devon duo Steve Knightleyand Phil Beer exhibits their trademark concern for making folk music speak to...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Flying Circus
Sharon Shannon and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
This week’s new word is ‘classional’, an apt term for the hybrid offspring of traditional and classical music, a mongrel...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
