Reviews
These Feral Lands Vol 1
Laura Cannell & Stewart Lee & Friends
The music is typical Laura Cannell: open, chordal (lots of over-bowed violin), improvised. It’s the presence of Stewart Lee on...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: January/2021
Quest Ensemble: The Other Side
This stunning sophomore release from London-based Quest Ensemble is a thing of beauty and brilliance, artfully embodying, as it does,...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: October/2020
Le Chat Brel
French violinist Gabriel Bismut met Italian accordion player Maurizio Minardi while playing jazz in Paris four years ago. They discovered...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2020
An tSLí
Bernard O’Neill has an impressive history. A classically-trained pianist and cellist, he has played double bass for the likes of...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2020
Do Coração
Last year, we praised Sara Correia’s first adult album (she had released a previous one in her adolescence) as a...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2020
A Casual Invocation
George Hoyle, aka Cunning Folk, is a folklorist, storyteller, folk artist, magical ritualist, a former member of Gay Dad, Circulus,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2020
The Butterfly Effect
British singer Ranjana Ghatak is well-known for her work uniting North Indian and Western musics, especially jazz, working with some...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2020
Stopy
In the last decades, the living folk traditions of Eastern Europe have changed from traditional to revival. The Michal Noga...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2020
First Steps
Fiddler Martin Clarke and melodeon player Will Allen are Brown Boots, fine players and purveyors of trad dance tunes –...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2020
