Reviews
The Divine Abstract
If the sonic right hook that begins ‘Shringara’ indicates the depth of this debut from Londoner Cawood, then the pretty...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: April/2018
Off the Floor
Welcome to the legendary dance halls of Canada's Cape Breton where, once a favoured fiddler like Wendy MacIsaac starts a...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: March/2015
The Lark’s Call
Born and raised in France, now ensconced in Dingle, County Kerry, where he has attracted attention as the uilleann piper...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2022
The Silent Majority
With two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards wins, a couple of acclaimed albums, a live DVD and even a recent...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: May/2016
Beyond the Pale
Gather around the campfire… Bush Gothic have 12 tracks’ worth of tales to tell. Of convicts and cattle wranglers, miners...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/September/2022
The Shovel Dance
Lankum aren’t the only purveyors of doom-laden folk. London-based nine-piece Shovel Dance Collective show with this, their second album, that...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2024
The Jackdaw Sessions
Rising from the ashes of the legendary Moishe’s Bagel, Triptic (Greg Lawson on fiddle, Mario Caribé on double bass and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: January/2026
The Ties That Bind
It's perhaps not too fanciful to now see Mawkin filling that Bellowhead-shaped hole looming in the folk-festival calendar – that's...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Prince of the Violin
Sami al-Shawwa (1885-1965) introduced the Western violin to Cairo, devising new techniques for it and reinvigorating the art of modal...
Reviewed by Martin Stokes in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Welcome to the Family
Bosnian guitarist Igor Sekulović grew up in Banja Luka, loving the sevdah music his mother and aunts sang. He ended...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
