Reviews
What Makes You
Indie folk champions Elephant Sessions return with their second album, and a cracker it is too. Winners of Live Act...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2017
Although double-winner Daoirí Farrell is missing from the tracklist (presumably for contractual reasons) it is only a minor quibble with...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2017
Banjaxed
Banjaxed finds Ciarán Ryan stepping confidently out from the ranks of Edinburgh-based world-folk fusionistas Dallahan to deliver a masterclass in...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2020
The Hour of Separation
Joe Tawadros’ last CD The Prophet was a delightful surprise, full of promise. In February 2010 the young Egyptian-Australian oud...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: March/2011
Kamana
Now here's an odd one. Carlos Casas is a Spanish-born filmmaker and artist whose work encompasses film, sound and visual...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2021
The Singer of Tales
The sevdah of the western Balkans, especially associated with Bosnia and Herzegovina occupies a space between folk and art music,...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: June/2020
Live in Mostar
Divanhana are a young Sarajevo-based band who have an old-fashioned work ethic: they get on the road and tour! This...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: August/2017
Revolve and Rotate
Luke Daniels’ last album What's Here, What's Gone found him evolving from a well-respected button accordion virtuoso to a more-than-respectable...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2016
NyeSongar.no
Karl Seglem is important to the Norwegian music scene for many reasons: as a hugely respected tenor sax player, as...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2014
The Blue Room
A fiddler with a characteristically delicate touch, Martin Hayes has won worldwide respect for his unique take on Irish traditional...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
