Reviews

The Last Bird to Sing

Ewan McLennan

Some first-rate accompanists join Ewan McLennan for his second album – Martin Simpson, John McCusker and Karine Polwart on harmony...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

Ground of its Own

Sam Lee

I hesitate to begin a review with the CD cover and the sleeve notes but two details here are key...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

Nord

Warsaw Village Band

The Warsaw Village Band are one of the most interesting folk groups in Europe: they have always stayed true to...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

Trio Portaki

Martha Mavroidi

The well-regarded Martha Mavroidi Trio is comprised of Mavroidi on lafta (lute) and vocals, with Georgios Ventouris on bass and...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

Il Soffio dell’Otre

Nico Berardi

Zampogna, the Italian double-chantered pipe, still livens up secular and religious festivities alike in southern Italy. Traditional musicians and revivalists...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

Marcha!

Lo Cor de la Plana

This is the third album from the male voice choir from the quartier of La Plaine in Marseille, who go...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

The Bear’s Revenge

Moulettes

Moulettes have been conjuring up a mystical world with poetic lyrics and richly textured music for the last ten years,...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

Break It Up

Rura

Rura are one of the most promising and interesting young bands to emerge recently and this, their debut album, establishes...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012

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