It's become a cliché when writing about cultural diversity in France to trot out the old de Gaulle maxim about...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
A powerful contemporary approach to the traditional ballad, from which she fashions a vivid and poetic set of original songs,...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
Three distinct pastoral flutes, made of wood or reed, h a ve traditionally been played in Greece: the floyera and...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
I remember descri– bing Tsuumi Sound System's last album (reviewed in #49) as a work of genius: a lesson in...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
This is a heart-warming disc. It's the recording of a performance in Caernarfon – the heart of Welsh Wales –...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
The subtitle of this disc – ‘Cimbalom for Four Hands’ – is slightly misleading. It suggests cimbalom duets on one...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
The second album from one of today's top young Scottish folk acts shares its arresting name with a well-known piobaireachd...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
The first four albums by the Incredible String Band summon up the spirit of the far side of the 60s...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
As all the tracks here are instrumental, you can only imagine what lies behind them. Thankfully, we have the short...
Reviewed in issue June/2010
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