- Cloud Valley Music website -
- Andrew Cronshaw website -
- Andrew Cronshaw MySpace -

- Back to Reviews Introduction page -

Written in fRoots issue 259/260, 2005


NIKOLAI BLAD
¿Missä Kävit?
Luoma LUOMACD4 (2004)

Blad is one of Finland’s most interesting and characterful songwriters, with a very distinctive “turtle voice”. Here, joined by a subtle band including fiddler Arto Järvelä, he turns his attention to tangos – his own and others’ – and it’s clear that in his intelligence, warmth and expressiveness resides the true essence of Finnish tango; Argentina-rooted it might have been, but now it’s a real Finnish folk musical and lyric form.


© 2004 Andrew Cronshaw
 

You're welcome to quote from reviews on this site, but please credit the writer and fRoots.

Links:
fRoots - The feature and review-packed UK-based monthly world roots music magazine in which these reviews were published, and by whose permission they're reproduced here.

It's not practical to give, and keep up to date, current contact details and sales sources for all the artists and labels in these reviews, but try Googling for them, and where possible buy direct from the artists.
Helsinki's Digelius Music record shop is a great source of Finnish roots and other albums.
CDRoots.com in the USA, run by Cliff Furnald, is a reliable and independent online retail source, with reviews, of many of the CDs in these reviews; it's connected to his excellent online magazine Rootsworld.com 

For more reviews click on the regions below

NORDIC        BALTIC        IBERIA (& islands)   

CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE, & CAUCASUS   

OTHER EUROPEAN        AMERICAS        OTHER, AND WORLD IN GENERAL

- Back to Reviews Introduction page -