Reviews
Every Mortal Place
For 40 years, the great English squeezebox player, singer and Morris dancer, John Kirkpatrick, has lived in Shropshire. Every Mortal...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2013
Butterfield Green N16
As the voices on the first track of this album fade in, we know we are in for a treat...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2013
Lips of Clay
Nick Janaway and Sarah Owen bring home-built computer tech to the world of I traditional folk. The results are fascinating,...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2013
Kalamburage
SkaZka were formed by two youths, Artur Gortatschov and Valentin Butt, who shared a homeland in the former Soviet Union...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2013
Komme No Heim
If you don’t know your stev from your lokk, or your skillingsviser from your bygdevise, have No fear. Jon Anders...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2013
Grey Falcon
Svetlana Spajic has been researching and performing the village music of Serbs in Serbia itself and further afield for many...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2013
Pizzica Indiavolata
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
There's no question that this spirited, acclaimed seven-piece acoustic ensemble is the vanguard of the effervescent present-day musical scene in...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2013
Money Isn’t Everything
Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra
They may be based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne but Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra have fallen for old-time Americana hook,...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2013
Arriva la Banda!
The music of Salento’s BandAdriatica is redolent of endless voyages around the winding Adriatic Sea on a ship where different...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2013
La Cantiga del Fuego
Madrid-born Ana Alcaide went to Sweden to study as a biologist and came back to Spain to become a professional...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2013
