CATH and PHIL TYLER The Song-Crowned King Ferrid Modrant 9 www.cathandphiltyler.bandcamp.com This beautifully spare new release from the American-British duo (based in England) has been a long time promised, but even with only six … Continue reading →
MONOSWEZI Monoswezi Yanga Tugboat 1090 www.worldmusic.net The second release from Monoswezi builds on their impressive debut. With a sound built on the unlikely twin foundations of Zimbabwean mbira (thumb piano) and Scandinavian jazz. Fronted … Continue reading →
DREAMERS’ CIRCUS Second Movement GO’ 0315 www.gofolk.dk In Europe, least, there’s a new wave of instrumental bands who have their roots in folk music but a compositional vision that extends far beyond the limits … Continue reading →
HARALD HAUGAARD Lys Og Forfald Pile House Records 0714 www.pilehouserecords.com This, as Danish fiddler Haugaard states in his extensive liner notes, is the culmination of a trilogy he began a few years ago with … Continue reading →
MAJA and DAVID NORD GO’ 1013 www.gofolk.dk If you want proof that Transatlantic collaborations can work, look no further than this. Danish fiddler (and singer/Hardangefele fiddle player) Maja Kjær Jacobsen teams up with fiddler and … Continue reading →
BOBAN & MARKO MARKOVIC ORCHESTRA Gipsy Manifesto Piranha Musik 2753 www.piranha.de When you’re the best brass band in the world, what is there new to do? Innovate, of course, and that’s exactly what Markovic father … Continue reading →
WHALEBONE Runes Two Wild Women www.whalebone-music.com This is the fourth album for the instrumental trio from Shropshire, England. Two guitars and fiddle, and a few other instruments they play (mandolin, etc.) tossed in for … Continue reading →
JUURI & JUURI Pelimannit Aania 23 www.aania.fi After a decade together, Finnish musicians Eero Grundström (Harmonium, harmonica, voice) and Emilia Lajunen (5-string fiddle, nyckelharpa, voice) have finally made an album. Well, not one album, but … Continue reading →
THE JOHN LANGAN BAND Bones of Contention The John Langan Band www.thejohnlanganband.com For an acoustic three-piece, the John Langan Band manage to make a rock group’s worth of noise. There’s guitar/percussion, fiddle and double … Continue reading →
MONSIEUR DOUMANI Grippy Grappa Monsieur Doumani www.monsieurdoumani.com Straight outta Nicosia, Cyprus, the trio of Monsieur Doumani are three young men on a mission to revitalise Cypriot folk music. Their first release, last year’s Cyfolk, … Continue reading →
