Reviews

Sou Luz

Dona Rosa

It has been over a decade since Dona Rosa went from street singer in Lisbon’s Baixa to a world sensation...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

Essencia

Madredeus

What’s good about the newly reformed and reinvented Madredeus is that they sound so much like the Madredeus of old....

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

Chasing the Light

The Old Dance School

The Birmingham-based Old Dance School’s debut album Forecast was full of the first flush of recording excitement; a follow-up was...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

Contours of Cairngorm (Live)

Mhairi Hall & Patsy Reid

Opening with the sweetly rousing ‘Sunrise’, Mhairi Hall and Patsy Reid’s Contours of Cairngorm is an accomplished and polished collaboration....

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

The Springtime Fool

Bard

Their catchy folk-pop choruses and carefree vagabond spirit recall The Levellers at their best. But there is much more to...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

Golden Horns

Boban i Marko Marković Orkestar

Down amongst the orchards of Serbia, the Marković Orkestar have fashioned a sound that’s punchy, exhilarating and irresistible to the...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

Hidden People

Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman

Hidden People is a neat title for Kathryn Roberts and her husband Sean Lakeman’s debut album. Both were well-known before...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

Flamenco

Diana Navarro

By embracing the Spanish folk song form copla and merging influences from pop, Diana Navarro joined a new wave of...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

Cirque Insomnia

Sheelanagig

There is plenty about the Bristol-based band Sheelanagig that is rooted in Southern and Eastern European musical traditions. This album...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

Simbiose

Ialma

Ialma is a Brussels-based quintet of female vocalists originally from Galicia in north-west Spain. Like a traditional women’s choir from...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012