Reviews
Fly Bird, Fly
Muzsikás are Hungary’s premier folk band and, for nearly 40 years, the leading international ambassadors of traditional Hungarian music. They...
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Urban Bratsch
One of the earliest French non-Gypsy groups to espouse Gypsy music, mainly of Eastern European origin, Bratsch have 40 years...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2012
Fin Da Laand Ageen
The title is a Shetland expression meaning ‘to arrive back home’ and the 13 beautifully per¬formed tunes heard here are...
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The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc
Three great fiddlers and three great fiddle traditions. Olav Luksengård Mjelva is from Norway, Anders Hall from Sweden and Kevin...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2012
The Irish Sea Sessions 2010
The inaugural Irish Sea Sessions, of which this is an electrifying live recording from last year’s Liverpool Irish Festival, brought...
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The World Turned Upside Down: Rosselsongs 1960¬2010
Here are 73 songs lasting almost five hours, written over half a century. This is a life’s work. It’s the...
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Kite
The concentration of young folk talent in the north-east of England may be related to the much-praised degree course in...
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Radio Moskova
How the anguished bass laments, taunted by the merciless, provoking accordion. But they forgive and make up, dancing around each...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2012
Romeo Scaccia meets Kočani Orkestar
The notion of a collaboration between an Italian pianist and film composer and a Macedonian brass band, might inspire anticipation...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2012
