Reviews

Kokoda

Ilan-Ilan

Named for the flower that scents the air of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, the Ilan-Ilan band was created in...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: January/February/2022

Utopia and Wasteland

Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar

No prizes for guessing to where the ‘utopia and wasteland’ of the title refers. It comes as no surprise that...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2018

Quest Ensemble: The Other Side

This stunning sophomore release from London-based Quest Ensemble is a thing of beauty and brilliance, artfully embodying, as it does,...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: October/2020

Hex

Hò-Rò

Hex is the second album from the group from the Scottish Highlands & Islands that won the Up and Coming...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: July/2018

Sròmos

James Duncan Mackenzie

Piper and flute player with popular Scottish band Breabach, James Duncan Mackenzie comes from Back on the Isle of Lewis...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2018

Feather

Edgelarks

Edgelarks are Devon-based folk duo Hannah Martin and Phillip Henry, and their fifth studio album finds them once again clinging...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Lily

Christy Moore

Christy Moore's first album since 2013's Where I Come From finds the bard of County Kildare in characteristically understated form...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Fly

Balaklava Blues

Marichka and Mark Marczyk's Balaklava Blues was realised on the barricades during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. Inspired by the traditional...

Reviewed by Agnieszka Ujma in issue: July/2019

Reka

Muha

Based in Nottingham, with a flavour of the Russian bardic singer-songwriters, a leavening of Gypsy jazz elements and some...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Kizaki Ondo

Kizaki Ondo Preservation Society, Clark Naito

‘Kizaki Ondo’ is an Edo-period folk song that originated in the bustling post town of Nitta Kizakicho, Gunma Prefecture. It...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: July/2019