Reviews
Escape – The Story of Jan Baalsrud and the Shetland Bus
The Arctic wastelands to the north of Norway can be the most desolate of places on earth… And yet in...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Une Vie Formidable
‘Oh, for a beaker full of the warm South!’ It would not surprise me were I to learn that Keats...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Accordeon: Musette/Swing Paris 1925-1954
Yet another hefty chunk of plastic from Frémeaux & Associés, this is the fourth volume of a series of compilations...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Big Like This
When Corrina Hewat and David Milligan boldly launched this folk big-band back in 2003 they recruited a Who’s Who of...
Reviewed in issue March/2011
Watching the Well
Naim is a jazz label with an outstanding contemporary artist roster and a reputation for top-flight sound quality and production....
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
Music from Entre Douro e Vouga
In contrast to the extraordinary field recordings by Michel Giacometti and José Alberto Sardinha all over Portugal during the second...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
Up From The Deep
Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts
Nominated for a BBC Horizon Award for best new act in 2010, and both graduates of the Leeds College of...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
In a Hoary Winter’s Night
Joglaresa’s fifth album is a selection of ‘Irish and English Songs of Wintertide’. There is a wi de ra n...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
Eplemøya Songlag
My first experience of Eplemøya Songlag was in an old fashioned wooden room in the old Bank building in the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
Sweet England
Released in 1959 on Argo, this album comes from the beginning of the folk revival, and Fledgling’s remaster from the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2011
