Reviews
Speak of the Devil
Dallahan aficionados will want to know that the Edinburgh-based quartet's fourth studio album suggests something of a new beginning as...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2023
The Rough Guide to Ravi Shankar
To produce a compilation of Ravi Shankar must surely be one of the most daunting tasks, given the wealth of...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
Finnish Folk Songs Vol 1
No one has done more in recent years for the jouhikko (the traditional Finnish bowed lyre) than Pekko Käppi. He...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: June/2020
Something Blue
Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra
First, a caveat: Rob Heron and his sharp-as-nails orchestra hail from old Newcastle, the one on the River Tyne in...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
While I Sit and Watch This Tree Vol 2
Born in Romania, but now based in Scotland, Lizabett Russo is a singer-songwriter influenced by Western and Romanian traditional styles,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2022
All You Need is Death
All You Need is Death is the first cinematic soundtrack from Lankum’s Ian Lynch. The film of the same name...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: July/2024
Festival Jump-Up
Now, the first CD here is something of a revelation, containing as it does the first ever reissue of Lord...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2020
La Grande Folie
It's been a long time coming – since school days, one could say – and the speakers positively burst with...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2021
Fifty Verses
In 2010 Nancy Kerr & James Fagan (winners of Best Duo at the BBC Folk Awards) found life on their...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2013
