Reviews
Slavic Folk Songs
Ansis Bētiņš and Artūrs Čukurs, like almost every other Latvian, grew up surrounded by folk songs. No wonder they developed...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Return to Kielderside
When she was 16 Kathryn Tickell borrowed a tape recorder and spent a weekend in her parents’ kitchen with friends...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Qui Omple Un Estadi No És Pas Un Graller
Trèvol present themselves as a young quartet picking on traditional instruments and repertoire, while inserting jazz, pop and folk elements....
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Undergrowth
This is the fifth album as leader by the Oslo-based trumpeter, who has long been a fixture on the Norwegian...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Cold Blows the Rain
Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions
This is a good period for ethereal and weird folk and traditional music, with acts like Milkweed seeing their idiosyncratic...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Jean Claude Vannier Et Son Orchestre de Mandolines
Jean Claude Vannier Et Son Orchestre de Mandolines
Now here’s an unusual, quirky and charming instrumental set from a French composer with a deserved cult following in the...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
The Winter Yards
This is – believe it or not – the first solo studio album from English folk singer-songwriter Steve Knightley in...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
Violet Sky
Helen Gentile (Monkey See Monkey Do) and Lewis Wood (Granny’s Attic) reunite for Violet Sky, their second album of original...
Reviewed in issue February/March/2025
A Terrible Beauty
More than half a century after his debut LP, Christy Moore’s first outing on Claddagh Records shows there’s still mileage...
Reviewed in issue January/2025
De Cop i Volta
Brunzit is the Catalan word for both the buzzing of the bees and a drink that’s made from honey and...
Reviewed in issue January/2025
