Reviews
Neptune
2008's Dreams of Breathing Under– water, an album of original tunes, was a long time coming, and it felt as...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
The Scoville Units
This British folk group have come together from all over the folk and acoustic scene. Banjo player Leon Hunt and...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
With Love
The self-styled ‘King of klezmer clarinet’ is back with an album that sees him and his band drawn as Marvel...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Taranta Container
Led by Lecce-born singer and author Alessandro Coppola, Nidi d'Arac have mingled traditional repertoires from Salento in south-east Italy with...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Vilda Rosor
The photo of Maria Kalaniemi in the CD booklet tells you exactly what this recording is like. The Finnish queen...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Tovafelé: Music from Beyond the Carpathian Mountains
Tuz Lángja are a young Hungarian band, drawing on the traditions of the Csángó people, who live in an enclave...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Outsinging the Nightingale: Lost Treasures of Bulgarian Music 1905-1950
As you might imagine, this is a treasure-chest of unknown gems from pioneering companies such as Gramophone, Pathé, Odeon and...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Lysøen: Hommage a Ole Bull
Nils Økland & Sigbjørn Apeland
Hardanger fiddle and violin player Nils Økland makes music that sounds as if he were spinning fine lace between the...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Thursday Night in the Caley
Hailing from the Highlands and islands, Blazin’ Fiddles have been stoking the flames since 1998, when they first got together...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
Highlander's Farewell
Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas
A member of the Celtic supergroup Skyedance, and widely regarded as a Scots fiddle legend, Alasdair Fraser's recent work has...
Reviewed in issue July/2011
