Reviews

The Mystery Inch

Damien O’Kane & David Kosky

Twelve instrumentals, five pairs of hands, and about as much transportative fun and joyful tune-making as you can imagine: welcome...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

Amulette

Amira

Tim Cumming tells the story of Amira recording ‘Bele Ruže’, the Saban Bajramović song that opens this album in his...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

On The Move

Colin Farrell

Firstly (as he must surely be heartily sick of hearing by now), this Colin Farrell is not the famously rowdy...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

Ups and Downs

Zoox

Zoox are Linda Game, Jo May and Becky Menday, who play a range of esoteric instruments including djembé, congas, balafon,...

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Lady Diamond

Bryony Griffith & Will Hampson

Surprisingly, this is the debut album by a duo that already has a long pedigree. Griffith and Hampson have been...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

Happ

Fribo

The innovative Scottish/Scandinavian/English band is happy to admit to being in something of a period of transition, Fribo sound in...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

Gore (Burning)

RUTA

RUTA is an anarchic project that reveals a little-known violent aspect of Polish history. The album's sub-title Songs of Rebellion...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

Doors at Eight

Peter Knight's Gigspanner

Peter Knight is the fiddle player in Steeleye Span but, since those folk– rock pioneers have been ploughing the same...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

Canti & Musica: Anthology of Profane Songs and Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

On Corsica the human voice reigns supreme, rooted in a polyphonic tradition revived on a wave of nationalism, the riacquistu...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011

Nisos

Nisos

Nisos are a group consisting mainly of Greek musicians based in the Czech Republic. The group take their name from...

Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011