Reviews
Lost Causes
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird have come on a long way from their 2005 debut album The Broken Tongue...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Last Band Standing
Who says you have to actually live in Eastern Europe to play Eastern European sounds? Not Forty Thieves Orkestar, a...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Keramello
Unni Boksasp knows about traditional Norwegian singing. She's studied it in depth, and understands its history and its regional styles....
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Phantom Songs
Ten albums and over 1,500 gigs later, the Berliners are still all over the map. When the Iron Curtain was...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Grá agus Bás
As a signee of the powerhouse American label Nonesuch, Donnacha Dennehy rubs shoulders with world music luminaries like the Buena...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Mistico Mediterraneo
Paolo Fresu, A Filetta & Daniele di Bonaventura
That the simple movement of air can make such haunting sounds as the opening of this album is miraculous. The...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Walsh & Pound
In these uninspiring times, in which Autotune software retains a strange stranglehold over popular music, Walsh & Pound might seem...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
The Art of the Portuguese Fado Guitar
Custódio Castelo is one of today's finest players of the 12-stringed Portuguese guitar. He is perhaps best known as the...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Dumnonia
He may be best known for his collaboration with the Essex folk quartet, Mawkin, but Jim Causley is very definitely...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Live in Somerset
Live in Somerset might not sound very rock‘n’roll. But Steve Knightley is a true stadium star of West Country venues...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
