Reviews
Piobaireachd/Pipe Music
Deeply rooted in the classical sound of the Great Highland bagpipe, the piper and multi-instrumentalist Fraser Fifield’s latest release is...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2021
Hurry the Jug
Leonard Barry, Declan Folan & Shane McGowan
Leonard Barry, Declan Folan and Shane McGowan's long comradeship in countless live sessions pays crisp, spryly accented dividends aplenty in...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2020
Banjophony
The poor old banjo has long been the butt of jokes – even banjo maestro Ron Block himself has been...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2018
Vintage K-Pop Revisited
A French quintet offering modern jazz-influenced instrumental covers of the songs of a Korean crooner? Even the theoretical infinite monkeys...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: July/2016
Mexico Mágico Cosmico
This re-release of a 1981 Mexican government-sponsored music project is a curiosity in many ways. It is an album that...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2018
In Flow
Irish concertina master Jack Talty here presents his first solo album, a well-considered collection of tunes. Jigs, reels, hornpipes and...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2017
Yallah Mickey Mouse
Cyril Yeterian (better known as the accordion playing frontman for Cajun blues band Mama Rosin) and fellow Genevan avant-garde experimentalist...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: January/2021
Du og Eg
Ingunn Stræte Lie & Jo Asgeir Lie
By the end of this album you’ll know your reinlenders from your springars, and polkas will be second nature. Here's...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: October/2016
The Hebridean Sessions
Opening with the quickstep and reel that is ‘Locheil's Away’, The Hebridean Sessions is a rather nifty introduction to some...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2016
