Reviews

Deliverance

The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc

It's five years since the first Nordic Fiddlers Bloc album. Since then they have endeared themselves to audiences with their...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2016

BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2016

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This year sees the 17th BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. They grow ever more prestigious and this year, the Royal...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2016

Moura

Ana Moura

The second Moura begins it becomes obvious this is no ordinary fado record. It takes just a snippet of ‘Moura...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: June/2016

Hearts Broken, Heads Turned

Jarlath Henderson

Jarlath Henderson hinted he could sing, as well as playing startlingly good uilleann pipes and whistle, on his 2013 Air-Fix...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: June/2016

The Rough Guide to Americana

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Compiled by rock writer and musician Sylvie Simmons, this second edition of TheRough Guide to Americana is a pleasing hodgepodge...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2016

Deltu

Pevarlamm

Deltu (Dynamism) is Breton world music, taking its influences from Brittany to Ireland, from Scotland to Galicia, from ceilidh to...

Reviewed by Andrew Mcgregor in issue: June/2016

The Rough Guide to a World of Psychedelia

VARIOUS ARTISTS

This sampler is a bountiful taster for World Music Network's ongoing series of global psychedelic compilations, skipping madly from land...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2016

Anian

9Bach

The Welsh band's third album is a cohesive, interconnected set of original songs and carefully placed Welsh folk songs, including...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2016

Heavy Wood

Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra

Djukella is an insult, common in the Balkans, meaning mongrel. Hellard and his band have reclaimed it aptly: their music...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: June/2016

Subcontinental Drift

Sultans of String with Anwar Khurshid

Canadian folk-fusion outfit Sultans of String have gone for the word-play double – both band name and album name –...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2016